Quotes About Nanowrimo

#1. There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground. Where it will likely require medical attention.

Chris Baty

#2. In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#3. Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

Ann Leckie

#4. Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it's utterly glorious.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk

Ralph Peters

#5. Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.) -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,' ... a transformed life).

J.I. Packer

#7. The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

Aberjhani

#8. Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely
whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else
it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

Aberjhani

#9. I spend my life wrestling my own mind over so many things. I chose to be noble even if it slips from my grasp at times

K. Farrell St. Germain

#10. Don't be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of
writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed at.

Chris Baty

#11. It's not always about writing more words or drinking more coffee. Sometimes getting to the end of a novel simply takes remembering that the world is more complicated than we know, and then sticking some of those complications into the story.

Scott Westerfeld

#12. I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. It is better to have a tender than harden human heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

George Gaylord Simpson

#15. My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

Jacob Dalton

#16. I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

Don DeLillo

#17. Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

Lauren Oliver

#18. Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.

Scott Westerfeld

#19. Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

Charles Colson