Yes, for those of you writers who should be well past the halfway point of your new novel draft by this time this month. As well as any others, working at whatever.
- “I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.” – William Carlos Williams, M.D.
- “Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.” – Gore Vidal
- “A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.” – Eugene Ionesco
- “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin
- “The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.” – Zadie Smith
- “The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis.” – William Styron
- “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
- “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman
- “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” – Aldous Huxley
- “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” – Albert Camus
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