Writing Practice Quotes

“I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone.”
― Shannon Celebi

“We learn writing by doing it.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning revealed the flaws and excesses it was trying to conceal.”
― Chloe Thurlow

“I use my old writings as a map to remember the way I want to go.”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“Keeping it simple helps keep procrastination at bay. The fewer the distractions, the more productive a writing practice can become.”
― Vindy Teja & Anna Brooke, WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within