Write Way Essay

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/100-quotes-that-helped-me-write

"“The fact is one's own voice is not heard anywhere else. It's a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.”
—Yusef Lateef

100 quotes that helped me write From last year’s commonplace diary

My Friday highlight is reading a weekly email I receive from Austin Kleon. He shared this incredible quote about writing last week:

Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life: “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.”

If you are not already following Austin Kleon, I suggest you do.

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. Website of the New York Times bestselling author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other books.