Lamott, Kings, Diaz

Response	Quotation
Anne Lamott "Shitty first Drafts" I liked this quote right at the beginning because when I think of successful writers, I think that they have writing easy, that they always feel like they know exactly what they are doing. and reading this makes me know that is not the case.	"People ten to look at successful writers, writers who are getting their books published and maybe even doing well financially, and think that they sit down at their desk every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they have to tell"
This metaphor was a good way of describing the first draft of paper. because a first draft really doesn't matter how crazy it is or if it makes since, it's just a way to get ideas out on paper and have something to start revising from.	" The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pur out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later."
This is so true. because you may just be writing just to keep your mind thinking and then all of a sudden and idea clicks in your mind and then everything starts to come together from then on.	"There may be something in the very last line of the very last paragraph on page six that you just love, that is so beautiful or wild that you now know what your supposed to be writing about, more or less, or in what direction you might go, but there was no way to get to this without first getting thought the first five and a half pages."
Stephen King "What writing is" This quote stuck out to me because it sounds like me. I always would carry a book around with me even in the car just for a 10 minute ride because you never know when you want to get lost in a different world a book can offer.	"I usually listen to one in the car and carry where ever I go. You just never know when you'll want an escape hatch."
I have read both kinds of books I laughed at this quote because of the joke he is making against Danielle Steel and Chicken Soup books.	"If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or another, I guess ill be alright as long as there is a lending library (if there is it's probably  stocked with nothing but novels by Danielle Steel and chicken soup books...)"
I liked this quote because it made a good point. Authors and readers have a meeting of the minds when one is reading a book. As the reader reads the book, they are reading what the Author thought in there mind, in a way it is like reading their mind.	" We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room... except we are together.  we're close. We're having a meeting of the minds. I sent you a table with a red cloth on it, a cage, a rabbit, and the number eight in blue ink. you got them all, especially that blue eight. we've engaged in an act of telepathy."
Diaz, " Becoming a Writer" I liked this story in general because I thought it was a story that everyone could relate to in one time of their life or another. Really struggling with something you were passionate about, not even writing necessarily. This could apply to any aspect of school, or sports. You don't become a great sports player if you dont keep trying even when it gets really hard and you feel like quitting.  I also think I shows how difficult writing can get at times and that even if it does you have to push through it as best you can. There is light at the end of the tunnel.	"Thats my tale in a nutshell. Not the tale of how I came to write my novel but rather of how I became a writer."  "you see in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope,  even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.