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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Insecure Writers Support Group

Well today is Insecure Writers Support Group Day and I am sending out positive, productive thoughts to all my fellow writers out there. Some you of, like my good friend Vics over at Hairnets and Hopes, are doing NaNoWriMo this month. Vics, you can rock this challenge!! I have every faith in you. And the same sentiment goes out to all my writer buds doing the NaNo. Write On!!

In the spirit of the Writing Muse, I want to share some of my favorite quotes about writing. Here's hoping we all take away some inspiration today.

"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." ~Charles Peguy

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." ~Sylvia Plath

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela

"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." ~Gene Fowler

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~ E.L. Doctorow
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18 comments:

  1. George Beremov [Nebular]November 2, 2011 at 5:01 AM

    "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." - Great quote, and so true!

    Mel, did you receive your nomination badge on your e-mail?

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  2. Rusty CarlNovember 2, 2011 at 5:03 AM

    Those are all fantastic quotes. Thanks for pulling those together here. I feel like drops of blood form on my forehead when I write. So Gene Fowler must be on to something.

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  3. Michelle GregoryNovember 2, 2011 at 5:25 AM

    you used some of my favorites. thanks for the reminders.

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  4. JulesNovember 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM

    LOL, I love the last one. The only quote I can remember is, "Toto, I don't we are in Kansas anymore." Sad but true. :)
    Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow

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  5. PK HREZONovember 2, 2011 at 6:19 AM

    Awesome quotes! I particularly love #3. It's so true and I never realized it til I started laboring over stories. Readers in general will never know the blood sweat and tears that went into it!

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  6. DEZMONDNovember 2, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    we're sending support to our beloved Vics!

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  7. julie feddersonNovember 2, 2011 at 7:52 AM

    I love Doctorow's quote. Had never heard that one before!

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  8. Wendy Tyler RyanNovember 2, 2011 at 9:21 AM

    Good Post! The last two quotes are my favorite.

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  9. Alex J. CavanaughNovember 2, 2011 at 10:24 AM

    I certainly buy the last one!
    And thanks for your awesome words on my post today.

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  10. EllaNovember 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM

    Melissa,
    These were great and so what I needed to hear to shake the cobwebs and dust lodged in my gray matter~
    Thank you :D

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  11. Jessica SalyerNovember 2, 2011 at 12:41 PM

    Love these quotes! How inspiring.

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  12. Lynda R Young as Elle CardyNovember 2, 2011 at 2:53 PM

    I think I like best the Enrique Jardiel Poncela quote: "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." so, so true!

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  13. M PaxNovember 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM

    Happy IWSG! Wishes for NaNo success to your friend Vics.

    And thanks for the quotes. Gene Fowler's made me laugh.

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  14. AnonymousNovember 2, 2011 at 3:59 PM

    I do like quotes. Doctorow sure got that one right. And I agree. So do I. hahaha.

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  15. vic caswell November 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM

    :)
    you're too sweet! :)

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  16. Craig EdwardsNovember 2, 2011 at 8:06 PM

    I'm with Fowler - but all the quotes are great - superb inspiration!

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  17. Annalisa CrawfordNovember 3, 2011 at 10:22 AM

    Great quotes - I especially like the last one, it suits me far too well!

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  18. Empty Nest InsiderNovember 6, 2011 at 11:43 PM

    Great quotes! Fowler's and Doctorow's are my favorites. Congratulations on being nominated Sexiest Female Author for the Movie411 Awards. Thanks for following me.
    Julie

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