Writing and working full-time is a tricky tightrope to traverse and I might need to post less frequently. This is disheartening so, today, as my early drafts are too rough to publish, I have hunted for inspiring writing quotes to lend much needed encouragement.
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https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/50-quotes-from-famous-authors-that-will-inspire-yo.html ©
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. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
–William Faulkner
Reading is a resource and a pleasure, and I like the encouragement to read what ever takes your fancy.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
–Robert Louis Stevenson
All the better to capture butterfly ideas, and remember that we are not alone.
A word after a word after a word is power.
–Margaret Atwood
We write for a reason, some days the words are good, others they are terrible, doesn’t matter. One word after another after another.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
–Thomas JeffersonThis appeals to me, brevity is a beautiful thing.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
—Gustave Flaubert
As a violinist, I couldn’t resist, true for both my playing and for my writing.
Bonnie Braw Press 