“You fail only if you stop.”
~ Ray Bradbury
“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won’t wash them away.”
~ Anne Lamott
“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities, and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
~ Mel Brooks
“Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them out onto the page, then call them characters.”
~ C.K. Webb
“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
~Henry Green
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
~ Cornelia Funke
“The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
~ Rod Serling
“Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.”
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”~ Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
I know many writers who need to read that Henry Green quote. Again and again and again. 😀
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Yep! 🙂
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Especially love number 2!
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❤️
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Thanks Cynthia! 😊
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Thanks Chris! 😊
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Welcome, Gee 👍😃
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Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Welcome Georgina! Quotes are powerful.
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Check out these great quotes about being a writer from this post on The Writing Chimp blog.
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Thanks for the share Don 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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Good quotes, G.L. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thanks for the share 🙂
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Thanks for sharing 😊
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You’re welcome 🙂
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These quotes are so uplifting for writers and thank you for sharing them us. #I am writing!
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These quotes are so uplifting for writers and thank you for sharing them us. #I am writing! Reblogged on K. D. Dowdall
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Thanks for sharing 😊
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Great quotes.
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