So much further on...

Another one from Lewis...

"What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn't matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it's thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on."

~~C.S. Lewis, Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves

You know you're a writer when...

You know you're a writer when you receive a clothing catalog and immediately scan the models' faces to see if they match a character in your wip instead of looking at the clothes.

~~Vickie McDonough
www.vickiemcdonough.com

Grace...

“All writing comes by the grace of God.”

~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Easy...

“True ease in writing comes in art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.”

~~Alexander Pope

Exploration...

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”

~~E. L. Doctorow

Supreme solace...

“Writing is the supreme solace.”

~~Somerset Maugham

I write toward...

"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him."

~~John Updike

A weak moment...

"In a weak moment I have written a book . . . "

~~Margaret Mitchell 11/19/1935