30 November 1835
Florida, Missouri, United States.
I hate writing. I love having written. Dorothy Parker.
All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. Mark Twain.
Creativity is my addiction, and writing is my drug of choice!
Ambear Shellea.
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.
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
– Helen Keller –
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps
to the concentration of the writer. Julia Leigh
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
Richard Bach.
To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Anne Rice.
“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.” — Voltaire, French, writer, philosopher, historian