Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. Jane Yolen.
Category Archives: motivation
The Living Word . . .
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
– Helen Keller –
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Never argue . . .
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to
their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark Twain.
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The concentration of the elite athlete…
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps
to the concentration of the writer. Julia Leigh
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A Professional Writer . . .
To Write . . .
Whatever you are . . .
Whatever I have tried to do in life . . .
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well, whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens.
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If you do not breathe through writing…
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write. Because our culture has no use for it.
-Anais Nin
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There is nothing to writing.
There is nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway.
