Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Monday, July 7, 2008

How many of us can say that 'writing' is a matter of life or death?

Or maybe it really is that way for all of us who are born writers. Even if we don't realize it, 'not writing' deprives us of breath and life. "I write for the same reason I breathe-because if I didn't, I would die."-Isaac Asimov Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Writing as you go...

This author was one of my favorites as a child. I can just imagine her in an intricate garden as she writes The Secret Garden..... I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.--Frances Hodgson Burnett Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 30, 2008

writers need solitude...

Yet it is so easy to go from submersion in work and kids to looking for activities to occupy the time I have alone. Any thing but struggling with solitude. Being alone is a time where so many things war with creativity---tiredness, loneliness, the wish for relaxation or pleasure. And often writing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

What do you really mean?

This quote touches something deep within me. As a writer, I want to be understood. The best critiques don't necessarily tell me if my writing is good or bad. The most helpful critical reader gives me an idea of what the reader hears me saying--then I can see how close what they hear is to what I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Don't grow to be an eggplant...

This is a wonderful quote about imagination---the fuel behind a writer's creativity and productivity.... '"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin Sign in to see full entry.

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