The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.
—James Baldwin
The terrible thing…
Category: Reflections
Study the master
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.
—William Faulkner
The only thing…
Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
—Barbara Kingsolver
You’re as good as…
Remember, you’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
—Billy Wilder
Fear
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Take a chance…
You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
—Jim Carrey
Writer’s Block…
…when your imaginary friend refuses to talk to you.
Like driving a car…
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow
Wrestling dragons…
Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
—G. K. Chesterton
Getting Away…
A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you’re the one writing it.
– Julie Wright
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