Here are a few of my favorite quotes. Anything here you can relate to?
The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not
the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps
you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and
speak it clearly and boldly. ~Oswald Chambers
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a
manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out
again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you
will receive some measure of success--but only if you persist. ~Isaac Asimo
The more we fear starting a project, the more difficult the
project becomes in our mind. This is self-defeating. ~Rob Parnell
Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she
believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for
stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of
litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. ~David Nicholls
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only
way you can do anything really good. ~William Faulkner
My Christmas stories are featured on Pamela Thibodeaux's blog on Tuesday. I hope you'll visit and leave a comment.
4 comments:
Some fine advice there. I'll check out the stories. Merry Christmas!
Asimov's quote is the one I identify with most -- but perhaps Parnell's is the quote I need to hear now. Thanks, Jess! :-)
You always make me feel better. A lone slacker attracts much guilt. And thanks for the good quotes. A wonderful Christmas to you and yours.
Love, Pat
What I can relate to is being a slacker! Ha. I think we all have this going on this time of year...
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