Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The Right to Write (and other important writer quotes)

So, I was exercising this morning and this thought popped into my head. "You have the right to write, right?" I got to thinking about Julia Cameron's book, "The Right to Write." When I finished with my morning routine, I pulled out her book and perused the first part of it and found some great quotes. These reminded me of some other things that I have read recently and they were good for me to read, so I decided to share. Because, as Julia says, we all have the right to write.

From her book: "We should write, above all, because we are writers whether we call ourselves writers or not." and "Higher forces speak to us through writing."

Also, from scripture: ". . . speak the thoughts that I shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded . . . for it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say."

What do you say about writer's block now, eh?

5 comments:

  1. Wow, way to tie in the scriptures! I'd never thought of it in quite that way. Love Julia Cameron. She's so quotable and it's all so true. Thanks for sharing. I needed the boost!

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  2. Wow, I've never thought of that scripture that way before. That is so great. That is the definitely a cure for the fear that causes writers block. That is going to change the way I approach writing.

    Thanks so much for the quotes.

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  3. Thanks for the post Shari! I needed to read that.

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  4. Hey Shari! Thanks for sharing the great quotes. I like the title to your blog too. :)

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  5. There's a place in the scriptures that also says we shall be judged out of the books which are written! Jesus Christ, when he visited the Nephites, asked to see the books - and when some that should have been written hadn't been, he commanded that they should be. So if writing is a God-given talent or desire, and we aren't magnifying that talent - will He ask us why we haven't written them?

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