A quote I find particularly apt at the present stage of the WIP (work in progress):
“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it’s good.”
— Leigh Bardugo, American fantasy and science fiction novelist, b. 1975, quoted by Louise Penny
“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
– Enid Bagnold, (1889-1981), British novelist and author of National Velvet
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.”
— Abraham Maslow, psychologist known for his theory of the hierarchy of needs (1908-1970)
(On Friday this week, for those on the road over for the holiday — safe travels!)
“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”
–Stéphane Mallarmé
“A confused reader is an antagonistic reader.”
Shirley Jackson