Writing is so much less about inspiration than it is about obedience. People say, ‘I don’t write unless I’m inspired,’ and that just makes me annoyed. I don’t think there’s ever been a time when I was inspired. I just open the files and sit there and work until something comes. I’ve written about a hundred poems and I think about two of them ‘just showed up.’
~ conversation with Sue Plett, poet, poetry teacher, blogger
“Show up every day. The blank page will teach you to write.”
~ conversation with Brooks Williams , singer-songwriter
"I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better."
“The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time's scrawl as a right and your daring as a necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly. . . .”
~ Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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