Quotes I love about the writing process! And about my next book!
I was bored one day and not really motivated since the writing process can be hard so in hard times I picked some I use to help keep me going! I’ve also decided to do an authore diaries for my Medium blog since it would be cool to write about the writing process. I came up with the office stuff since it is something I have experience with and some situations are annoying. I also loved ghosts too. Not to mention I planned it one way and it turned into something else. I also planned at first to have it called Ghost Avengers but thought of a better name Ghost Reapers since they take souls to bring the dead to life. This book means a lot and I can’t wait to show people it will also have office rants, evil exes and evil bitches getting what they deserve! Like kill Bill only she takes souls and feeds a sorcerer to stop demons from hurting other Ghost Talkers.
Here are the quotes!
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” — E.L. Doctorow
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” — Terry Pratchett
“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” — Shannon Hale
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.” — Octavia E. Butler
“Writing is the painting of the voice.” — Voltaire
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” — Natalie Goldberg
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” — Robert Cormier
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.” — David Hare
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” — Joseph Heller
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.” — Herman Melville
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” — Anaïs Nin
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” — Stephen King
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” — Gloria Steinem
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” — Terry Pratchett
“The only writer to whom you should compare yourself is the writer you were yesterday.” — David Schlosser
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.” — Joss Whedon
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” — Robert Cormier
“Write what should not be forgotten.” — Isabel Allende
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach
“You can make anything by writing.” — C.S. Lewis
“Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit.” — Linda F. Radke
“The desire to write grows with writing.” — Desiderius Erasmus
“The more I write, the more I realize that the material is never exhausted. It’s always possible to dig deeper.” — Alice Munro
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann
“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
“Don’t be ‘a writer.’ Be writing.” — William Faulkner
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” — Saul Bellow
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” — Stephen King
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” — Joan Didion
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing, and learn as you go.” — E.L. Doctorow
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” — Howard Aiken
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” — Jodi Picoult
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” — Terry Pratchett
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost
“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.” — David Hare
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing, and learn as you go.” — E.L. Doctorow
“To survive, you must tell stories.” — Umberto Eco
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” — Jodi Picoult
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” — Stephen King
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” — Anne Frank
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