It's advisement day, so I am short on time, but as my of my friends and acquaintances are knee deep in NaNoWriMo, let me offer a little cheap writing advice (mostly) from my favourite site for writing quotes:When fate's got it in for you, there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.
- Georgette Heyer
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T. S. Eliot
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
- Brenda Ueland
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
- Gore Vidal
Close the door. 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
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
- Eugene Ionesco
2 comments:
Enjoyed the quotes. I particularly liked the Brenda Ueland one.
Thanks! Some of my faves, too. Ueland was really brilliant. I re-read If You Want to Write any time I feel depleted.
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