WoW Saturdays

Both "writers on writing" and "words of wisdom" can be shortened with the same word. Thus, welcome to WoW Saturdays, June to September 2011. Enjoy this collection of writers quotes throughout the summer.

l don't buy that the people don't have enough ideas. It is hard for me to imagine how someone can go through the whole day and have talker's block, I have never met anyone who woke up in the morning and had so little to say they were mute until they went to bed that night. People don't get talker's block, so why do we get writer's block? We get writer's block 'cause we are afraid, it's easy to talk because you can deny it later and it disappears, but once you write it down, that's when the fear comes from. That's where you say I don't have any good ideas and all I do is write like I talk. If I have something interesting to say, I say it and then I write it down, it's not that hard. I think that the art here is in chopping down the wall, the barrier between what you want to say and what you are afraid of, and letting people hear your best stuff.

- Seth Godin

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

- Anais Nin

"Every story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end…but not necessarily in that order."

- Jean-Luc Godard

This is from Rough Canvas by Joey Hill.

"Sometimes being an artist, obsessed with his art, was like being an alien. There was no one to really talk to about it, who wanted to talk about the minutiae involved in creation that was so amazing and miraculous–to the artist alone."

Among my family and friends, I often feel like an alien or a changeling. No one I see on a regular basis understands the thrill of getting a new idea or finding new and interesting ways to describe things.

- J. Leigh Bailey http://www.storiesofthedrakon.blogspo...