Inspiration from My Favorite Authors

Collecting quotations has been one of my lifelong hobbies. In the pre-computer days, I would jot down quotations on slips of paper and toss them in a desk drawer. Once a month, I would type them up and place them in a special file folder. I’ve kept the folder but now use Pinterest and Goodreads to store my quotations.

These quotations resonate during this season of my life:

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” ~ Margaret Atwood

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ~ E. L. Doctorow

“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.” ~ Sue Grafton

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” ~Barbara Kingsolver

“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison

“The most successful people I know have figured out how to live with criticism, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.” ~ Michelle Obama

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ~ Jodi Picoult

“Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.” ~ Anna Quindlen

“You don’t find time to write. You make time. It’s my job.” ~ Nora Roberts

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” ~ Virginia Woolf

Do you have a favorite quotation?

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