Robert Anderson
“Write your heart out.”
Bernard Malamud
“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.”
Leo Rosten
“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.”
John Rogers
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
“Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, ‘Is that what I really think?'”
Carol Bly
“The writer’s job is to turn the unspeakable into words — not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.”
Anne Lamott
“Poetry is a language that tells us . . . something that cannot be said.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson