For many years, I kept my rejection slips, although I couldn't have told you why. When I came across today's quote -- again from Sylvia Plath -- it made …
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Writing Wisdom from Sylvia Plath
“I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still” -Sylvia Plath …
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“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” - Sylvia Plath …
The Wisdom of Sylvia Plath
Fair warning: I'm a Sylvia Plath fan and have been since I was in middle school. Today's quote, from her: Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” …
Lock Up Your Libraries
From Virginia Woolf: Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ? Virginia Woolf, …
Alice McDermott on the Perils of Publishing
I'm offering today's quote, from one of the contemporary writers I most admire, in a shorter and longer version. The shorter version is funny, and the longer of …
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Gertrude Stein on Who to Write For
As it's Gertrude Stein's birthday today -- her 143rd -- my quote comes from her The Making of Americans: I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only …
Margaret Atwood on Words
Today's quote, from Margaret Atwood, seems as important these days as ever: A word after a word after a word is power. I'm going to spend the day doing my best …
365 Great Quotes from Women
More Wisdom from Nora Ephron, from her commencement address to the 1996 class at Wellesley, via the Washington Post: Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they …
Anne Frank on Patience and Paper
Closing out January with a last quote from Anne Frank: Again, if you haven't done so already, I hope you will read my post on Anne Frank that set off these …