Writing Quotes - Lacey Louwagie

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Writing Quotes

A collection of 19 posts

Persistence Over Talent

“To be persistent is way more important than talent — we all know talented writers who will never publish because they won’t get in the chair and write the book. I am not the most talented person by miles, but I am incredibly determined.” – Susan Mallery, Writer’s Digest Interview,

On Creation

“I was in the middle of writing and did not want to go anywhere, much less face my kin, who were in the middle of childbearing and child rearing. Creating a book was not a legitimate pregnancy.” – Terry Tempest Williams, “When Women Were Birds.”

What "Cool Girl" Can Teach Us About Writing Women

For about four years in my adolescence, I refused to read books by men. This was because when I was 12, I was so turned off by the way Fred Saberhagen wrote about women in one of his Book of Swords installments that I figured I better stick to women

The Writing Life

Finding "Space" to Write, Refilling the Well, and Cheating: Balancing the Need to Create with Everything Else

This past weekend, despite still recovering from a nasty cold, my husband and I drove six hours across the state to Hill City for a writer’s workshop. I’ve returned more tired than I ought to be after a weekend, but also recommitted to my writing, reassured that I’

Advice I Need to Put in Practice ...

“I’m saying that you should send out, today, the best work you are capable of doing today. Of course you’ll do better a year from now. But a year from now you should be writing the story that you care about and believe in at that time — not

The Writing Pregnancy

“I could never be at peace again till I had written my charge against the gods. It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.” – C.S. Lewis, “Till We Have Faces”

Beware the Unruly Catholic Woman on the Train

Last week, I traveled about 48 hours round-trip by train/bus/car, spent $300 on said transportation(s), and didn’t get a full-night’s rest for four nights to attend a reading of Unruly Catholic Women Writers in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday. Train and bus schedules were such that

The Broth of Our Experience

“Writing is what we make from the broth of our experiences. If we lead a rich and varied life, we will have a rich and varied stock of ingredients from which to draw on. If we lead a life that is too narrow, too focused, too oriented toward our goals,

Love Everything You Write

“Love everything you write. Accept your writing as permanent, a person you are in love with who has good days and bad days, cranky days and euphoric ones. Let your writing be itself. Give it love and it will surprise you.”- Julia Cameron, “Mood,” The Right to Write

Writing as Nourishment

“My friend thinks of writing as digestion. For me, it is that and more. For me, writing is food itself. I need a certain amount of writing to stay healthy.” – Julia Cameron, “This Writing Life,” The Right to Write. And this reminds me of something Jacqueline West said earlier this

The Power of Imagination

“Is it possible that imagination can lead us to the truth of our lives? Yes, it can!” – Henri J.M. Nouwen, Here and Now

Out of Whatever I'm Doing, into Writing

“For me, writing is an appetite, a joy. Even when I don’t think I want it, even when I think I have nothing to say, it seduces me like the first really balmy day of spring: I want out of whatever I am doing and into it.” – Julia Cameron,

Writing Book Review: The Right to Write by Julia Cameron

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Writing–and this is the big secret–wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill up your heart if

Time for Writing

“The lies we tell ourselves about writing and time are all connected to envy, to the fairy tale notion that there are others whose lives are simpler, better funded, more conducive to writing than our own. “The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life

Writing Toward the Horizon

“Writing is a lot like driving a country blacktop highway on a summer day. There is a wavery magical spot that shimmers on the horizon. You aim toward it. You speed to get there, and when you do, the ‘there’ vanishes. You look up to see it again, shimmering in

The Luxury of Mood

“It is a luxury to be in the mood to write. It’s a blessing but it’s not a necessity. Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.” – Julia Cameron, “Begin,” The Write to

Life as a Writer

“Our writing life, our life ‘as a writer,’ cannot be separated from our life as a whole.” – Julia Cameron, The Right to Write

The Main Reason I Write

Some Thoughts After a Writing Retreat

I’m back from a three-day weekend spent at a cabin in the Black Hills on a little “writing retreat.” I got two full days of writing in, and discovered … that two full days wasn’t big enough for my ambitions. I so rarely get the chance to get away