Daily Words of Wisdom

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Daily Words of Wisdom

I have found this to be true so many times! If we don't let our 'logical' mind get in the way, the path to creativity is there.

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” 
― Saul Bellow

Daily Words of Wisdom

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” 
― Toni Morrison

Daily Words of Wisdom

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” 
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Daily Words of Wisdom

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daily Words of Wisdom

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.” 
― Junot Díaz

Daily Words of Wisdom

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” 
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem