Lori Sizemore

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.

–Truman Capote

Thanks to Advice to Writers. (On Twitter – @AdviceToWriters.)

Unknown:

“Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”

I love writing.  I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

~James Michener

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very;” your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

~Mark Twain

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

~Graycie Harmon

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

~Sylvia Plath

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

~Anaïs Nin

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive… then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
–Howard Thurman

You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need

–Rolling Stones

Remember why you were doing it in the first place? Because while you were writing, you could fly. You could do magic. You were one of the immortals—and, dammit, isn’t being one of the immortals heady stuff? Remember? You have written because of love, and you know what that blood-pulsing, heart-pounding, adrenalin-high, I-can-do-anything rush is all about. You know.

-Holly Lisle (again)

From whence it came.