You Become A Writer…

“You become a writer because you need to become a writer—nothing else.” –Grace Paley

It Is Impossible…

“It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.” -Sinclair Lewis

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ―C.G. Jung

“Your thorns are the best part of you.” –Marianne Moore

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“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.” ―Anne Rice

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” ―Leonardo da Vinci

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”—James Dickey

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” -Johann von Goethe

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ―Henry David Thoreau

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

―Aldous Huxley