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Duh.

“Writing is easy. It’s putting one word in front of the other and not being stupid about it.”

-Wise words shared by one of my very favorite writers of all time: My LOVE, my business partner, my inspiration, and the father of my boys…Allen Voivod.

Got something brewing inside? Let it pour out of you!

“Creative work is…a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.”

-Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art

It all seems so simple, when you put it THAT way…

“Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Have YOU ever felt like this?

“Most writers are secretly worried that they’re not really writers. That it’s all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won’t coalesce ever again.”

-Nicholson Baker, author of U and I : A True Story

Your life’s work, in 30 minutes a day

“Take the time to write. You can do your life’s work in half an hour a day.”

-Robert Hass, author of 20th Century Pleasures

Get your head around THIS awesome quote

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”

-David Brinkley

When you put it THAT way, you might as well just go for it!

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

-Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Lavina Goodell puts critics in their place

“Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because your articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic’s judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all.”

-Lavina Goodell

Really? And he must know a lot of writers, too!

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”

-Joseph Heller

Food for thought on the most commanding day of the year

“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand – a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods – or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”

-Willa Cather