Monday Quote Day!

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

{Stephen King}

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
{Stephen King}


I get a strange sensation when I know I have hit on a good idea. It’s a kind of tingling feeling all over. I often spend months weaving my story in my head, dreaming it and living it over and over again before it is ready to write down, so knowing that you have found a good idea for a story is a wonderful feeling.

{Michael Morpurgo}

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

{Martin Luther King Jr.}

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
{William Zinsser}

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

{Harriet Braiker}

I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity.

{Brian Kiteley}

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

{Malcolm Gladwell}

Happy Monday and happy writing, Zigzaggers!!!