Writing Wisdom

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing." --Benjamin Franklin

"The experience of writing is primarily an adventure, not a vocation; if it feels like destiny and not a choice, you should understand at the start that it's as likely to be a curse as a blessing." --Joyce Carol Oates

"For the details to be concrete and convey meaning, the language must be accurate and precisely given. The words can be so precise they may even sound flat, but they can still carry; if used right, they can hit all the notes." --Raymond Carver

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." --Ernest Hemingway

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." --Robert Frost

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." --Maya Angelou