Here are a few of my favorite quotations from books about writing, lines I enjoy re-reading because they inspire me to keep writing:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Art, in essence, celebrates life and gives us our measure.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bernard Malamud (First Person Singular: Writers On Their Craft; compiled by Joyce Carol Oates)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Brenda Ueland (If You Want To Write)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Rita Mae Brown (Starting from Scratch) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153An essay about those who shun the popular and profitable for that of seemingly small importance is an essay I want to write; it is an essay I want to read.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Lisa Knopp (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Excavations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in The Essayist At Work, edited by Lee Gutkind)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Those are my goals as a writer: to celebrate life, to illuminate the lives and loves of people around me, to do so with skill as well as passion while creating works that are entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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