Lexie

“To read and to write is to be empowered. No shackle can ultimately hold you.”
― Natalie Goldberg, The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

“I've learned to be wary of those times when I think I know what I'm doing. I've discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue...”
― Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

“I have been writing all my life. Growing up, I wrote in soft-covered journals, in spiral-bound notebooks, in diaries with locks and keys. I wrote love letters and lies, stories and missives. When I wasn't writing, I was reading. And when I wasn't writing or reading, I was staring out the window, lost in thought. Life was elsewhere-I was sure of it-and writing was what took me there.”
― Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

“The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail-not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.”
― Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life