writing inspiration for nanowrimo
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WRITING INSPIRATIONFOR NANOWRIMO
W H Y F A M O U S A U T H O R S W R I T E
- Ray Bradbury
I don’t needan alarm clock.My ideas wake
me."
For your born writer,nothing is so healing asthe realization that he
has come upon the rightword.”- Catherine Drinker Bowen
There is somethingdelicious about
writing the first wordsof a story. You never
quite know wherethey'll take you.”
- Beatrix Potter
I think all writing is a disease.You can’t stop it.”
- William Carlos Williams
There is no greater agony thanbearing an untold story inside you.”
- Maya Angelou
People say, ‘What advice doyou have for people who want tobe writers?’ I say, they don’t reallyneed advice, they know they wantto be writers, and they’re gonna do
it. Those people who know thatthey really want to do this and are
cut out for it, they know it.”
- R.L. Stine
Child, to say the very thing you reallymean, the whole of it, nothing more orless or other than what you really mean;that's the whole art and joy of words.”
- C.S. Lewis
The writing of a novel is taking lifeas it already exists, not to report it but tomake an object, toward the end that thefinished work might contain this life insideit and offer it to the reader. The essencewill not be, of course, the same thing asthe raw material; it is not even of thesame family of things. The novel is
something that never was before and willnot be again.”
- Eudora Welty
If there's a bookthat you want to read,
but it hasn't beenwritten yet, then you
must write it.”
- Toni Morrison
If you want tochange the world,pick up your pen
and write.”
- Martin Luther
Who wants to become a writer?And why? Because it’s the answer to
everything. … It’s the streaming reason forliving. To note, to pin down, to build up, to
create, to be astonished at nothing, tocherish the oddities, to let nothing godown the drain, to make something, to
make a great flower out of life, even if it’sa cactus.”
- Enid Bagnold
When I sit down to write abook, I do not say to myself, ‘I amgoing to produce a work of art.’ Iwrite it because there is some lie
that I want to expose, some fact towhich I want to draw attention, and
my initial concern is to get ahearing.”
- George Orwell
Writing isn't about making money,getting famous, getting dates, getting laid,or making friends. In the end, it's aboutenriching the lives of those who will readyour work, and enriching your own life, aswell. It's about getting up, getting well, andgetting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting
happy.”
- Stephen King
Tomorrow may be hell, buttoday was a good writing day, and on
the good writing days nothing elsematters.”
I write to give myself strength. Iwrite to be the characters that I am
not. I write to explore all the things I'mafraid of.”
- Neil Gaiman
- Joss Whedon
A person is a fool tobecome a writer. His onlycompensation is absolute
freedom. He has no masterexcept his own soul, andthat, I am sure, is why he
does it.”
- Roald Dahl
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