“It is perfectly okay to write garbage as long as you edit brilliantly.” ~C. J. Cherryh #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement
Tag: motivation
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” ~Thomas Jefferson #writerencouragement #mondaymotivation
“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.” ~Anton Chekhov #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement
“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.” ~Joseph Joubert #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s.” ~Stephen King #writerencouragement #mondaymotivation
“Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.” ~Anne McCaffrey #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” ~Barbara Kingsolver #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ~ E. L. Doctorow #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement
“I get a lot of letters from people. They say, ‘I want to be a writer. What should I do?’ I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.” ~Ruth Rendell #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~Toni Morrison #mondaymotivation #writerencouragement