--- title: "1 Books Nervousness Quotes By Mary Jo Salter" description: "1 Books Nervousness quotes by Mary Jo Salter. Plus more from Mary Jo Salter and more Books Nervousness sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/mary-jo-salter-38984_anxiety_writing-is-a-bit-like-walking-into-a-big_1011296.jpg" --- > [Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/writing-is-a-bit-like-walking-into-a-big-bookstore-it-s-the-bookstore/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/mary-jo-salter-38984_anxiety_writing-is-a-bit-like-walking-into-a-big_1011296.jpg) ## More by Mary Jo Salter > [Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/like-a-page-dipped-in-ink-your-cuff-s-in-my-coffee-you-have-something/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/part-of-what-the-imagination-does-later-in-life-is-it-s-linking-you/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/writing-is-a-bit-like-walking-into-a-big-bookstore-it-s-the-bookstore/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [The one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're in their twenties and thirties and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/the-one-concession-i-ve-made-as-i-ve-gotten-older-is-that-my-children/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/and-i-said-to-myself-here-s-the-problem-with-the-world-the-italians/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [A number of people have written poems about Trump already, and I salute them. He is so beyond anything we could have imagined and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/a-number-of-people-have-written-poems-about-trump-already-and-i/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/as-poets-we-re-writing-into-the-void-and-we-re-not-writing-to-be/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/money-is-that-dear-thing-which-if-you-re-not-careful-you-can-squander/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/political-poetry-is-the-hardest-thing-to-write-because-you-cannot/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/all-writers-know-in-advance-that-they-are-not-going-be-able-to/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) > [I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jo-salter/i-am-a-relatively-rational-being-and-i-like-to-create-order-in-poems/) [Mary Jo Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jo-salter/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-nervousness/mary-jo-salter/#itemlist", "name": "1 Books Nervousness Quotes By Mary Jo Salter", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. 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