Five Quotations about Writing as Self-Discovery

“What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. Going into yourself and meeting no one for hours on end–that is what you must be able to attain.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.” – Leo Rosten

“Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.” – M. K. Simmons

“Writing is thinking on paper.” – William Zinsser

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.” – William Faulkner

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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