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Showing posts with label Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul. Show all posts

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Random Quotes for Writers

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I'm staring down a deadline or two and enduring a mild case of blogger's block. It's like writer's block, only it involves not being able to come up with a decent thing to post about.
So, I decided to pull my copy of Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul off my bookshelf and flip through it, praying for inspiration. What I found were a lot of good quotes. Here are a few of my favorites:


Words are clothes that thoughts wear. ~ Samuel Butler


When I want to read a good book, I write one. ~ Benjamin Disraeli


A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ~ Richard Bach


All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald


When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. But when you write, your words echo down the ages. ~ Bud Gardner


Talent is long patience. ~ Gustave Flaubert


When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well. ~ Marjorie Holmes


Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure--just a big field to wander in. ~ Natalie Goldberg