"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage to use it."
Katherine Anne Porter
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Claude M. Bristol
"Everyone has a good poem hidden in their head."
Don Welch
"Write about it by day, and dream about it by night."
E.B. White
"God sells us all things at the price of labor."
Leonardo da Vinci
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To make your unknown known - that is the important thing."
Georgia O'Keefe
"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put at the right place."
Isaac Babel
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Somerset Maugham
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
William Shakespeare
"When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair."
Robert Stone
"First thought, best thought."
Allen Ginsberg
"Third thought, best thought."
Frank Conroy
"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow
"Any work of art must first of all tell a story."
Robert Frost
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
Thomas Mann
"I'm going to write because I cannot help it."
Charlotte Bronte
"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I write and I understand."
Chinese Proverb
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
Harper Lee
Hope you enjoy these quotes. Next week will survey some of the awards presented in children's writing.
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