“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.”-Anais Nin
“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”- E.M. Forster
“I never wrote a word I didn’t hear as I read.”- Eudora Welty
“Creativity is continual surprise”- Ray Bradbury
“The ultimate confrontation is with that blank sheet of paper.”- John McPhee
“It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”- E.L. Doctorow
“The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat.”- Toni Morrison
“We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.”- Wallace Stegner
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” Madeleine L’Engle
“Writing is a lonely act that is never really performed alone.” – Donald M. Murray
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” – Francis Bacon
“For excellence, the presence of others is always required.”- Hannah Arendt
good stuff.
