Best 26 quotes of Rob Bignell on MyQuotes

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final statement after a lifetime of scratching out divisions upon the ground, over ephemeral time itself, merely to give their short journeys meaning, to tell others “I was here – do not forget me, do not let my brief blast dissolve into nothingness.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

Tell me once more about the eternal surf.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

There is always, always, always something to write about.

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowding passive voice sentences.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.