Quotes and Questions 1

My own best advice to young writers is: follow your curiosity and passion. What fascinates you will probably fascinate others. But, even if it doesn’t, you will have devoted your life to what you love. An important corollary is that it’s no use trying to write like someone else. Discover what’s uniquely yours. ~Diane Ackerman

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all…

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. “The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.” Anne Truitt, the sculptor, said this… ~The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Have you found your passion? The subject, the theme, the characters, the element in life that you alone love? Are you writing about that?

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