Someone asked me what made me want to write, and I struggled with an answer. I replied that in first grade we were given an allotted time to write stories, and it was my favorite part of the day. I described that I wrote a rhyming poem on my white board at home that made my mother cry because of the subject matter. I explained that writing is my drug and I’m addicted. I’ve been doing so much writing lately because I am taking Nonfiction and Fiction, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve composed a list of quotes all about writing, literature, poetry, and authors because I simply cannot get enough:
1. “Every good writer writes shitty first drafts.” – Anne Lamont
2. “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
4. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway
5. “The crown of literature is poetry.” – William Somerset Maugham
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6. “A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.” – Stephen King
7. “For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” – Catherine Drinker Bown
8. “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” – Stephen King
9. “Writers live twice.” – Natalie Goldberg
10. “Writing isn’t just a hobby for me or a way to pass the time. I write because I need to. Because words flow through my head to my fingertips and beg for life. I write as a way of life. I write to relive memories. I write to forget. I write to escape. I write to create. I write to stay sane. I write, yes, because I want to, but also because I have to. Because writing is a part of me that grows and thrives with me. I write to understand. Understand the world around me and the people who inhabit this world. I write to understand myself. I write to express myself. I write because it makes me happy. But, I also write when the sadness or anger or loneliness is too overwhelming and writing only makes it worse. I write to inspire others. I write because I’m inspired. I write because I need to. I write because I don’t know how not to.” – Me
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