Every writer needs some encouragement, warmth and a reason to write. Here are some quotes, especially if you are involved in NaNoWriMo:
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I
Fencepost cactus flower photographed with iPhone, no flash. Illumination with flashlight. © Quinn McDonald 2014
hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ― Saul Bellow
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov
“The first draft of anything is shit.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver
“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings
—Quinn McDonald is a writer and creativity coach.
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