On Writing
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
Kurt Vonnegut –
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou –
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni Morrison –
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf –
♠ Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window ♠
William Faulkner –
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
Stephen King –
“If you don’t like someone’s story, you write your own.”
Chinua Achebe –
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
Margaret Atwood –
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
Howard Nemerov –
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London –
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
Wole Soyinka –
♥♥ The scariest moment is always just before you start ♥♥
Stephen King
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Posted on January 19, 2015, in Features/Essays/Articles and tagged quotes, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
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This is a great post..I had to comment on this one ’cause it was written on my bday..lol..I love the quotes.Blogging is an out and medium of expression..I write the way I would talk!Love your post..Added to my blog roll!
Yef
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Hahahahahahaha thanks girl. .. Happy belated birthday. Hope you had fun 🙂
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