I like to collect quotes on different topics. Things that resonate with me for various reasons. Of course, a number of the quotes I save pertain to writing. I decided to share 10 of those today:
...I write to keep in contact
with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. Sonia Sanchez
Never keep
a poem waiting; it might be a really good one, and if you don’t get it down it’s
lost. Ruth Stone
I have never started a poem
yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. Robert Frost
As soon as
coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes
arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a
struggle. Honore de Balzac
For a long time now I have
tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write
better than I can. Ernest Hemingway
She was so much a writer that
she didn’t need to put the words on a page—the world was her paper. Isabel
Farhi about her grandmother Betty Friedan
I must write it
all out, at any cost. Writing is more than living, for it is being conscious of
living." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
An idea, like a
ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Charles
Dickens
If you read a great poem aloud--for example, “To
a Skylark” by Percy Bysshe Shelley--and read it the way he set it up and
punctuated it, what you are doing is breathing his inspired breath at the
moment he wrote that poem. That breath was so powerful it still can be awakened in us over 150 years later. Natalie
Goldberg
You need to know that your
poetry muscles can get bigger. Nikky Finney
Do you have a favorite quote about writing?
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