Le Guin Quote on Writing

Here's a quote to inspire you as you write your novel for NaNoWriMo!

"Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn.

They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them."

Ursula LeGuin, author of the wonderful Steering the Craft:: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew, the Earthsea Cycle, and more.
(From Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, 1989.)