“If you wish to be a writer, write.” ∼ Epictetus, Greek life coach
“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.” ∼ Jack Kerouac, beliefs challenger through spontaneous prose
“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” ∼ Catherine Drinker Bowen, stalker of others’ lives through books
“Beware of advice – even this.” ∼ Carl Sandburg, 3 time Pulitzer Prize winner who failed a grammar exam
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.” ∼ C. J. Cherryh, the lover of sci-fi with her own main belt asteroid 77185 Cherryh
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” ∼ Douglas Adams, 1 of 2 non-Monty Pythons to merit writing credits
“Writing is its own reward.” ∼ Henry Miller, contributor to the US sexual revolution of the 1960s
“I can’t write five words but I can change seven.” ∼ Dorothy Parker, donor of life’s estate to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” ∼ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, honoured in song by Neil Diamond
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” ∼ Orson Scott Card, aka at least 7 pseudonyms
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words make.” ∼ Truman Capote, canonized to the extreme, having some of his ashes stolen twice from Johnny Carson’s ex-wife
“Be obscure clearly.” ∼ E. B. White, member of Aleph Samach Society, Quill and Dagger Society, and Phi Gamma Delta
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” ∼ Agatha Christie, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
