WRITING INSPIRATIONFOR NANOWRIMO

W H Y F A M O U S A U T H O R S W R I T E

- Ray Bradbury

I don’t needan alarm clock.My ideas wake

me."

For your born writer,nothing is so healing asthe realization that he

has come upon the rightword.”- Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is somethingdelicious about

writing the first wordsof a story. You never

quite know wherethey'll take you.”

- Beatrix Potter

I think all writing is a disease.You can’t stop it.”

- William Carlos Williams

There is no greater agony thanbearing an untold story inside you.”

- Maya Angelou

People say, ‘What advice doyou have for people who want tobe writers?’ I say, they don’t reallyneed advice, they know they wantto be writers, and they’re gonna do

it. Those people who know thatthey really want to do this and are

cut out for it, they know it.”

- R.L. Stine

Child, to say the very thing you reallymean, the whole of it, nothing more orless or other than what you really mean;that's the whole art and joy of words.”

- C.S. Lewis

The writing of a novel is taking lifeas it already exists, not to report it but tomake an object, toward the end that thefinished work might contain this life insideit and offer it to the reader. The essencewill not be, of course, the same thing asthe raw material; it is not even of thesame family of things. The novel is

something that never was before and willnot be again.”

- Eudora Welty

If there's a bookthat you want to read,

but it hasn't beenwritten yet, then you

must write it.”

- Toni Morrison

If you want tochange the world,pick up your pen

and write.”

- Martin Luther

Who wants to become a writer?And why? Because it’s the answer to

everything. … It’s the streaming reason forliving. To note, to pin down, to build up, to

create, to be astonished at nothing, tocherish the oddities, to let nothing godown the drain, to make something, to

make a great flower out of life, even if it’sa cactus.”

- Enid Bagnold

When I sit down to write abook, I do not say to myself, ‘I amgoing to produce a work of art.’ Iwrite it because there is some lie

that I want to expose, some fact towhich I want to draw attention, and

my initial concern is to get ahearing.”

- George Orwell

Writing isn't about making money,getting famous, getting dates, getting laid,or making friends. In the end, it's aboutenriching the lives of those who will readyour work, and enriching your own life, aswell. It's about getting up, getting well, andgetting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting

happy.”

- Stephen King

Tomorrow may be hell, buttoday was a good writing day, and on

the good writing days nothing elsematters.”

I write to give myself strength. Iwrite to be the characters that I am

not. I write to explore all the things I'mafraid of.”

- Neil Gaiman

- Joss Whedon

A person is a fool tobecome a writer. His onlycompensation is absolute

freedom. He has no masterexcept his own soul, andthat, I am sure, is why he

does it.”

- Roald Dahl

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