Sheila Bender famous quotes

We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.
-- Sheila Bender

#Writing #Voice

The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.
-- Sheila Bender

#Distance #Writing #Journey

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.
-- Sheila Bender

#Dream #Poetry #Consciousness

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?” I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.