The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice Quotes

“is for losers. Life is messy, difficult, heavy. It's also exhilarating, intense, awesome. Making mistakes is supposed to happen. We mortals have no other way of learning – because we never learn from other people's mistakes in quite the same way we do from our own.”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia." – Kurt Vonnegut”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice

“No one takes a job expecting they can't do it. But when the shit hits the fan and the pressure explodes all over you, remember you still have total control. You choose how to respond.”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice

“Millions of people are waiting for you to say what you want to say – in the way only you can.”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does." —William Faulkner”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice

“Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice

“notoriously human ability to beat the shit out of ourselves. Part of it comes from insecurity – and every good writer has that in spades.”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice

“Don't get trapped by thinking about perfection. You're not perfect. I'm not perfect. Nothing is perfect. F*ck it. Write anyway.”
― Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, The Definitive Guide to Writing on Your Terms, Using Your Own, Honest-to-God, Gut-Wrenching Voice