Wednesday, August 14, 2019

#WriterWednesday: #Quotes About #Writing

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime. It's an unyielding calling and my passion
~Elizabeth Reyes

Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.
~Gary Vaynerchuck

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
~Herman Melville

One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there.
~Martha Alderson

No it's not easy to write, it's as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel
~Clarice Lispector

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.
~Thornton Wilder

A Writer is someone who has taught their mind to misbehave
~Oscar Wilde

2 comments:

Jeanie said...

The Vaynerchuck quote is really appropriate -- especially considering our political situation here. A lot of bad legacies being written.

Victoria Zigler said...

Jeanie:
Yeah... Here too, unfortunately!