If you’re a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
– Tim Maleeny
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Quotable 490
Inactivity is more detrimental than wasting your time on something that doesn’t go anywhere because it will lead to something else.
– Jon Favreau
Quotable 443
Go to where the silence is and say something.
– Amy Goodman
Quotable 435
Remind yourself, every day, that you’re doing this to try to find something out about yourself, about the world, about words and how they fit together. Writing is investigation. Just keep seeking.
– Naomi Alderman
haiku 553
cold front arrives –
wind flicks something loose
against my window
Quotable 423
Something about a situation will bother me, so I will write a piece to find out what it is.
– Joan Didion
Quotable 419
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
– Geraldine Brooks
Quotable 391
I had forgotten that trying to write something good before I write anything at all is like refusing to give birth unless you know for sure it is going to be a very good baby.
– Lynda Barry
haiku 493
nearly midnight –
spare cat growls
at something she’s treed