“Work with all your intelligence and love. Work freely and rollickingly….Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.” – Brenda Ueland

“Writing is like breathing. It’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.” – Julia Cameron

“Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first ten years.” – Andre Dubus

“It’s the whole getting started thing for me. I forget how to write a book. The first ten thousand words are like digging fossils from rocks.” – J. T. Ellison

“You get what you dare, baby, and if you want big, you dare big.” – Leonard Bishop, Dare to Be a Great Writer

“The challenge is not to write truth, but to write seductive believability.” – Stephen J. Cannell

“If you’re good enough, like Picasso, you can put noses and breasts wherever you like. But first you have to know where they belong.” – Alice K. Turner, fiction editor, Playboy magazine, 1980 – 2000

In this space we’ll occasionally post a quote about writing for your consideration. Comments welcome.

“Anybody who can be deterred from writing should be….If I were on the proverbial desert island I would write things and attach them to the back of a Galapagos tortoise in hopes they would get out somewhere.” — Harlan Ellison