A Year of Writing Dangerously Quotes

“Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.”
― Barbara Abercrombie, A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

“Thoreau said that there are two kinds of writing: one reports the event; the other is the event itself. This is another version of show-don’t-tell. One is at arm’s length; the other is right in your face, in your heart, in your senses. When you read the event itself, you forget that you’re reading — you’re experiencing it. And we write and we rewrite to discover how to do this with every story.”
― Barbara Abercrombie, A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

“I walk around in my human fog, lost in my own head, while he comes up with twenty-two words for seagull.”
― Barbara Abercrombie, A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

“I wrote out of sheer stubbornness and panic.”
― Barbara Abercrombie, A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

“The only way you learn to write is by reading and studying the kind of thing you would like to write — and by writing.”
― Barbara Abercrombie, A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement