The Mindful Writer

I'm reading this little book about writing this week called The Mindful Writer, by Dinty W. Moore. It's such an inspiring book! It contains lots of little chapters, and each chapter starts off with a quote by a famous writer, then Moore spends a couple of pages talking about the quote. Here are some of my favorite quotes from what I've read this week.

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." -Thomas Mann

"There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about." -Raymond Carver

"When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem." -James Tate