from Karen Harrington
author, Janeology
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At different times in my writing life, each of these quotes was on a Sticky-Note somewhere on my desk, reminding me of a fundamental truth about writing.
1. "One of the first things you learn as a writer is that you write what you can, not what you want." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." Aristotle
3. "The function of a writer is to raise questions not to find answers." Doris Lessing
4. "A good novelist does not have to describe everything about the sea as long as he knows it." - Ernest Hemingway
5. "If I had listened to what people said I would never have been a writer." - John Wain6. "Last week I spent five days writing one page..." - Gustave Flaubert
7. "Writers need solitude as others need sleep." - Source Unknown
8. "It's only after you've written a book that you find out what it's about because everyone tells you." Helen Fielding
9. "The best research is talking to people." Jeffrey Archer
10. "You can. You know you can conquer your fears. That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears." - Erica Jong
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1 comment:
I like this quote from Sir Winston Churchill that I found in PennyPress Variety Puzzles, February 2005:
Writing a book was an adventure. To being with, it was a toy, an amusement; then it became a mistress, and then a master, and then a tyrant.
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