The Upside to COVID-19 (for Writers Only)

Posted on September 5, 2020 by mitchteemley

Remember…

Writing

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” ~Shaun Hick

“When everything is wiped blank, it’s life’s way of forcing you to become acquainted with who you are now, who you can become.” ~Jennifer DeLucy

     “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”    ~Maya Angelou

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~Ernest Hemingway

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ~Anne Frank

  “You must write every single day of your life. (You must) lurk in libraries and climb the stacks… sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… be in love… and out of that love, remake a world.”    ~Ray Bradbury

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Writer, Filmmaker, Humorist, Thinker-about-stuffer
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37 Responses to The Upside to COVID-19 (for Writers Only)

  1. Rita Sommers-Flanagan says:
    September 5, 2020 at 12:29 pm

    Needed those quotes today. Thanks.

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  2. kendorphin says:
    September 5, 2020 at 1:02 pm

    To write is to live. I like to process things as I type. It makes life more meaningful.

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  3. Introverted Thoughts says:
    September 5, 2020 at 2:00 pm

    A wonderful post! I loved all the quotes you included here.

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  4. jimspoor says:
    September 5, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    Thank you. Inspiration resides here

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  5. Dora says:
    September 5, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    My motto? When you’ve got nothing left to say, start writing.

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  6. Andrew Reynolds says:
    September 5, 2020 at 4:28 pm

    Well, writing about Covid could take up the rest of my life …

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  7. CG Thelen says:
    September 5, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    Thanks for another great set of quotes. They’re even more powerful when read together.

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  8. Kellie says:
    September 5, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    Great quotes! I love the Jennifer DeLucy one, so true with COVID, many of us becoming acquainted with who we are now… 👌

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  9. Lady Quixote/Linda Lee says:
    September 5, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    You’re probably going to think this is crazy, but years ago I started a blog called “I write to keep my head from exploding.” I was so happy to see that no one else had a WordPress blog by that name! I even bought the domain from GoDaddy, so it would be mine forever.

    The next day, I came to my senses and deleted that stupid WP blog. I also got a refund for the domain.

    Here’s the link. It leads to a page saying that the blog is no longer available because the authors have deleted this site:
    https://iwritetokeepmyheadfromexploding.wordpress.com

    It’s true, though. If I don’t write on a regular basis — Watch Out!

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  10. Nancy E. Head says:
    September 5, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    Thank you. Great quotes, especially Bradbury and Frank.

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  11. Deb Farris says:
    September 5, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Beautiful. I just read these out loud to my husband and he’s not even the writer in the family but he is a reader and surely gets it. 🙂 Thanks Mitch.

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  12. Hetty Eliot says:
    September 5, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    I love how they all speak to a different meaning of writing. Some love riveting plots, others love exploring the psyche.

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  13. Chioma says:
    September 6, 2020 at 12:59 am

    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” This here, is my take home🤗. Thank you Mitch

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  14. Beck says:
    September 6, 2020 at 8:51 am

    Love the Ray Bradbury quote especially!

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  15. Pam Webb says:
    September 6, 2020 at 9:38 am

    Ray Bradbury knows how to say what needs to be said.

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  16. seekingdivineperspective says:
    September 6, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    I like the play on Nietzsche’ quote. 😉

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  17. Ann Coleman says:
    September 7, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    I loved that first quote! It’s a writer’s take on the old saying, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” I like this version better.

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    September 7, 2020 at 1:27 pm

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  19. usfman says:
    September 7, 2020 at 4:38 pm

    I’ll write about then anything but masks, hand sanitizers, and toilet paper.

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    September 7, 2020 at 5:36 pm

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  21. Sara says:
    September 8, 2020 at 11:43 pm

    Great quotes! Needed them today. Thanks for sharing!

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  23. LaRonda Bourn says:
    September 10, 2020 at 3:56 pm

    These are truths to remember! For so long I thought the only authentic writing was fiction, which I had no interest in. Then, as recently as three years ago, I believed writing was all about putting to words what you knew so others could know what you knew. As soon as I realized that worked for school assignments and tech books, I realized that the writing I was meant to do was a means for examining thoughts and facts in a way to make something personally valid, practical and relevant. And THAT was what made it worth writing, for me at least. And I quickly learned that I was the first reader who was influenced by my writing – so much so that what the next reader saw was very different from how I began! I also realized I AM a writer whether I post often or not, or if many people ever read what I write. I figured that out when even my emails were longer and carefully structured! 😂

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  24. UniqueRandomness says:
    October 4, 2020 at 10:04 am

    Awesome quotes!

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