Melinda included me in the three quote challenge, to post a quote every day for three days. As I am not around for a few days, I will not pass this one on to other bloggers this time, but hope a few of you will choose to take part. Thank you, Melinda, for thinking of me!
While I’m here, perhaps I should add this to Colleen’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday too?
I liked this particular line, as it sums up the freedom of the writer. I’m not sure that I agree with all of Ms Adler’s reasons in the piece, but I think she must cover most of the things that impel us to pick up that proverbial pen…
“I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I write to be seen and heard.
I write to be near those I love.
I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal.
I write myself out of nightmares.
I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I write to remember.
I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
I write because speaking can’t be reread.
I write to sooth a mind that races.
I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.
I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I write to provide a legacy.
I write to make sense out of senselessness.
I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.
I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time.
I write because God loves stories.
I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”
―Shannon L. Alder
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
I love that second picture quote. So true!
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Yes, its a good reminder….
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Beautiful.
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🙂
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Sue, thank you for sharing this fabulous quote! I am finding out that your quote is spot on too! Writing my first novel has been an interesting experience. I feel the power of the words! I am so glad you added this to our quotes. Have a fabulous weekend! ❤
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I rather liked this one. The words do get hold of you, don’t they? You even start thinking in your writer’s voice 🙂
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I have noticed that also, thinking in my writers voice. It is an interesting experience, writing this book that is pouring out of me. ❤
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It is a wonderful adventure, though, isn’t it? 🙂
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I am enjoying the journey now that I feel like I have a structure to work off of. At first I was lost. Now, I feel like I am some headway. I just wish I had more time carved out for writing. Whenever I try lately there is something else that needs to be done. What do you do? 😉
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Me? Work every hour I can 🙂 As i live alone, that’s fairly easy to manage 🙂
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Lovely post! As a child writer and an adult diarist, I really relate to many of these.
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I think a lot of us can… 🙂
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Great quotes, and reasons to write. 🙂
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Not that we need any excuses, of course 😀
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Hi Sue! I’m a child at heart and for some things I’ll never grow up. I love the quote you chose and most of the reasons for writing on Shannon Alder’s list. 😀
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I grow older, but ‘up’? Not if I can help it! 🙂
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