01UndatedWhen we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
02Undated..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
06UndatedNever be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
07UndatedEvery word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
09UndatedEvery word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
11UndatedFolding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
12UndatedBy writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
13Undated...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
18Undated...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
19Undated...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowding passive voice sentences.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
20UndatedWriting is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
23UndatedOften as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
24UndatedThrough the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.Rob Bignell / quote ↗
