A Few Quotes
25 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in Quotes Tags: Quotes, writing quotes
You’ve probably noticed that I like quotes.
Here are a few writing related quotes I’ve stumbled across lately.
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The main rule of writing is that, if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.)” ~ Neil Gaiman
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison
“Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong, distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.”
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ~ Ray Bradbury
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say”. ~ Anaïs Nin
