Ciara

“It’s childish to assume people will understand unexpressed meanings. It’s dangerous to confuse self-expression with communication.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft: a Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you are getting to know better every day, something is bound to happen.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when one feels as small and jumpy as a water bug. They do. But they also often feel a great sense of amazement that they get to write, and they know that this is what they want to do for the rest of their lives.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion