Before We Get Started Quotes

“So I had him go to work, because it occurred to me that even when your wife leaves you, you still have to show up for work.”
― Bret Lott, Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life

“Brenda Ueland, in her book If You Want to Write, writes of her own why: “At last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them, if they cared to hear it. If they did not—fine.”
― Bret Lott, Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life