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More People Should Write
But I also tell them that sometimes when my writer friends are working, they feel better and more alive than they do at any other time. And sometimes when they are writing well, they feel that they are living up to something. It is as if the right words, the true words, are already inside them, and they just want to help them get out.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Writing can lead to reflection, reflection can lead to understanding, understanding can lead to happiness.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury