Quote of the Week~April 12th, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.” ~Erica Jong.

Quote of the Week~April 5th, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

~ Calvin Coolidge

Quote of the Week~March 29th, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other people’s models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.”

~ Shakti Gawain

Quote of the Week~March 22nd, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

~ Jackie Collins

Quote of the Week~March 15th, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day… You don’t go to a well once but daily. You don’t skip a child’s breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning…”

~ Walter Mosley

Quote of the Week~March 8th, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.“

~John Steinbeck

Quote of the Week~March 1st, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”

~Junot Diaz

Quote of the Week~February 22nd, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”

~Philip Roth

Quote of the Week~February 15th, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt to my parents,” and so on.
I say to them, “There is no excuse. If you want to write, write. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait. Make the time now, even if it is ten minutes once a week.”

~Natalie Goldberg

 

Quote of the Week~February 8th, 2013 via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

~ Anne Lamott