Posts Tagged "narnia"

Do you have a favorite writing quote?

»Posted by on Oct 11, 2009 in Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized | 2 comments

“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison In response to my last post Christina noted how her search for a door to Narnia led her to start writing. That reminded me of the above Toni Morrison quote. Sometimes I feel lost. I don’t know what I should be writing. It’s not an absence of ideas, but too many of them swirling around in my cluttered head. I find myself thinking that I should work on the book that would seem most likely to sell, but then I recall this Toni Morrison quote, and am reminded of the fact that the book I need to write is the book that I would be most inclined to read. There’s a much repeated adage that writers should write what they...

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