"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"--Maya Angelou
"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." --Stephen King
"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's away of understanding it."--Lloyd Alexander
"If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."--Isaac Asimov
"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job. It's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."--Neil Gaiman
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."--John Steinbeck
"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."--F.Scott Fitzgerald
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."--Thomas Jefferson
"You can fix anything but a blank page."--Nora Roberts
"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."--Kurt Vonnegut
"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."--C S Lewis
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." --Stephen King
6 comments:
Stephen King has said some great things about writing.
I love these quotes, and I love that video! Thanks for sharing.
excellent
I remember when Nora said in RWA "You can't fix anything on a blank page." It really struck me, even though I already knew it.
Great quotes! My T13
Excellent mix; inspiring and practical.. Thanks.
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