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I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor

Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life

You are free to write the worst junk in America.

Natalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

perhaps you’re completely stumped for ideas, so we ask questions like: What are moments from your life, big or small, that stick with you? What are the stories you can’t wait to tell a new friend, or the stories your oldest friend or partner always asks you to repeat? What are The Greatest Hits of You?

Kate Tellers • How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

As a writer, my job is formally to be a really good noticer.

Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

My mother, the doctor thought, was waiting for my arrival and might not last the night. “Dying of what?” I asked him. “Nothing, everything.”

John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

Without your story, you’re perfectly fine.

Julie Merrick • Thoughts that Move Energy: Allowing Awareness Support Appreciation Empowerment

Who we are is where we come from and what we’ve seen and what we’ve said. And what we continue to say. And for so many good reasons, it’s a good idea to write it all down. While you remember, and while you can. Life is always in the particular details, the details that only you actually know.

Oldster Magazine • What Good Are Our Memories If We Never Share Them?

In the end, it is the stories we tell ourselves which are the dangerous ones, the ones that kill us or save us

Anthony Capella • The Various Flavours Of Coffee

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,