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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury When I’m working on a piece of writing that is really moving along, I do feel that buzz, the euphoria, the slight out of reality feeling that Continue reading Drunk on Writing
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. If frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save Continue reading Happy Fourth! Protect the Freedom to Write
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”Gerald Brenan Don’t wait until you’re published to say you’re a writer. You’re a writer if you write, period. In Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Continue reading Writing Down the Bones
“If you’re a singer, you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”–Mickey Spillane This is comforting to me…and I believe quite Continue reading Getting Better Every Day
If I’m trying to sleep, the ideas won’t stop. If I’m trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. ~Carrie Latet The hardest part of the barren nothingness is writing past it, freewriting is the answer. Many of my morning Continue reading Barren Nothingness
What’s this business of being a writer. It’s just putting one word after another.~ Irving Thalberg If You Can Talk, You Can Write This book by Joel Saltzman is a short inspiring book that I keep on my writing bookshelf Continue reading One Book on My Writing Bookshelf
The ideal view for daily writing, hour on hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do cloudless if possible.~ Edna Ferber Edna Ferber was called “the greatest American woman novelist Continue reading A Stretch of Cloudless Sky
“Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you — as if you haven’t been told a million times already — that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler Continue reading It’s not easy
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.Robert Schuller We will write when we’re inspired, when the time and all of the conditions are perfect. When the coffee mug is full, the pencils are sharp, the ream of Continue reading Perfectionism and writing
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.Cormac McCarthy For me it’s been a struggle making a living as a writer and I Continue reading Making Money as a Writer