Vignette XXXVI

The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will  stop  your breath if you don't write - Grace Paley

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I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within - Euroda Welty

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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now - Annie Dillard

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Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all - Vivian Gornick

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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across -- not to just depict life -- or criticize it -- but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. things aren't that way - Ernest Hemingway

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How I became a better writer was that I kept writing - Sallie Tisdale

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The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always - Arthur Miller

My favourite is the last one.  You mustn't ever be scared by what you write because somebody might disagree with it.  It's your party, and they can always leave if they don't like it.  I will keep writing.  I promise.