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…
Tag: Writing
A Writer’s Power
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
—Sinclair Lewis
Imagination
“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
— Philip Jose Farmer
Creativity
The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.
— Sylvia Plath
Rejection
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
–Sylvia Plath
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
Writers can be pretty intense.
It’s the kind of thing that can happen when you spend too much time bottled up inside your own head.
Ideas are like rabbits…
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck
Poisoned by emotion…
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
There’s no greater agony…
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
