Write Quotes (page 11)

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• fear
• writing
• disturbed

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. Natalie Goldberg

• writing
• without
• ways

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. Jules Renard

• friend
• happy
• writing

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. Stephen King

• writing
• shoots
• writes

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, saut it, whatever. MAKE. Joss Whedon

• imperfection
• chance
• past

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter. Iain Banks

• great
• writing
• greatness

Writing is the great invention of the world. Abraham Lincoln

• writing
• exploring
• exploration

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. E. L. Doctorow

• helpful
• street
• him

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions. Don DeLillo

• knowledge
• leaving
• dance

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound. William Goldman

• business
• writing
• busy

writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it. Ayn Rand

• writing
• drawing
• may

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. Philip Roth

• manly
• one day
• writing

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins. Anton Chekhov

• best
• writing
• absolutes

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! Mario Vargas Llosa

• love
• fire
• end

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. James Lee Burke

• fear
• writing

Write to your fear. Dorothy Allison