Writing Quotes. ? lifeintheblueridges

Over the past few days, I?ve been looking for quotes that explain what I?ve been feeling as I?ve been writing my book. Through the quotes I?ve come across, I?ve realized that all writers struggle with loneliness, dark days, insecurity and days when it feels as if those that aren?t also writers can?t understand what they are feeling. I?ve compiled a list of quotes that either resonated with me or helped encourage me to keep on digging up memories of my past to ultimately share my story with the world.

• ?Don?t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.? -Anton Chekhov
• ?Tears are words that need to be written.? -Paulo Coelho
• ?Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.? -Natalie Goldberg
• ?Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.? -Stephen King
• ?With writing, we have second chances.? -Johnathon Safran Foer
• ?When you?re missing a piece of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food?I bear my soul, with words, for all to see.? -Jennifer Salaiz
• ?You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.? -Stephen King
• ?I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.? -Craig Claiborne
• ?If a story is in you, it has to come out.? -William Faulkner
• ?A story isn?t a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It?s an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.? -Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• ?To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it?s about, but the music the words make.? -Truman Capote
• ?Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you?re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.? -Anne Lamott
• ?Sometimes a book isn?t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.?Sometimes it?s the only story you knew how to tell.? -Tahereh Mafi
• ?When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we?re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I?m trying for that.? -Maya Angelou
• ?You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won?t really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we?ll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won?t wash them away.? -Anne Lamott

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