Rob Bignell Quotes

Tell me once more about the eternal surf.
Rob Bignell
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.
Rob Bignell
Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
Rob Bignell
The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.
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Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.
Rob Bignell
There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.
Rob Bignell
Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.
Rob Bignell
...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.
Rob Bignell
...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.
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Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.
Rob Bignell
There is always, always, always something to write about.
Rob Bignell
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
Rob Bignell
Every book I've read appears in my writing.
Rob Bignell
Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.
Rob Bignell
Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.
Rob Bignell
Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.
Rob Bignell
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.
Rob Bignell
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.
Rob Bignell
...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.
Rob Bignell
My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.
Rob Bignell
Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.
Rob Bignell
Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.
Rob Bignell
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.
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..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
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When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.
Rob Bignell
Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.
Rob Bignell