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Category: Reflections

A Writer’s Power

The writer, Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

—Sinclair Lewis

Posted on August 29, 2021August 23, 2021Categories Humor, Reflections, WritingTags Humor, Sinclair Lewis, WritingLeave a comment on A Writer’s Power

Imagination

Philip Jose Farmer
Philip Jose Farmer

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

— Philip Jose Farmer

Posted on August 28, 2021August 23, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Imagination, Philip Jose Farmer, WritingLeave a comment on Imagination

Creativity

Photo of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath

Posted on August 27, 2021August 23, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags creativity, Plath, WritingLeave a comment on Creativity

Rejection

Photo of Sylvia Plath typing
Sylvia Plath

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

–Sylvia Plath

Posted on August 26, 2021August 23, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Perseverance, Plath, Rejection, WritingLeave a comment on Rejection

Slipping…

Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce carol Oates

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

—Joyce Carol Oates

Book lovers never sleep alone.

—Anonymous

Posted on August 25, 2021August 23, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Joyce carol Oates, readingLeave a comment on Slipping…

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

Posted on August 24, 2021August 14, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Imagination, Literature, reading, WritingLeave a comment on Wrestling dragons…

Ideas are like rabbits…

A warren of rabbits eating.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

—John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Posted on August 22, 2021August 14, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags ideas, Steinbeck, WritingLeave a comment on Ideas are like rabbits…

Like Breathing…

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.“

― Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
Posted on August 21, 2021August 14, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Annie Dillard, books, Joy, readingLeave a comment on Like Breathing…

Poisoned by emotion…

Edna Ferber and James Dean on the set of Giant
Edna Ferber and James Dean on the set of Giant

I think that to write well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice—they all make fine fuel.

—Edna Ferber

Posted on August 20, 2021August 14, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags emotions, experience, WritingLeave a comment on Poisoned by emotion…

There’s no greater agony…

Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou

Posted on August 19, 2021August 14, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Maya Angelou, Untold Story, WritingLeave a comment on There’s no greater agony…

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