“If your verbs are precise, if they get at who did what to whom in what way as specifically as possible, your writing will improve by 50%.”
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Library
“We write to expose the unexposed.”
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Pen
“The scariest moment
is always just
before you start.”
Stephen King, On Writing
Typeface
“We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.”
Anais Nin
Typewriter
“No writing is ever wasted; every sentence you write, however awkward and whether you use it or not, is a learning experience.”
Richard Rhodes, How to Write
Books
“Writing is the act of
burning through
the fog in your mind.”
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
Typewriter2
“The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.”
