Here's some more great quotes for you. Enjoy!
If you tell me, it's an
essay. If you show me, it's a story.
- Barbara Greene
A kid is a guy I never
wrote down to. He's interested in what I
say if I make it interesting.
- Theodore Geisel (Dr.
Seuss)
When a writer talks
about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
- Alfred Kazin
The beautiful part of
writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a
brain surgeon.
- Robert Cormier
I discovered that
rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his
own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
- Saul Bellow
Half my life is an act
of revision
- John Irving
Fill your paper with
the breathings of your heart...
- William Wordsworth
Technique alone is
never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered
potholder.
- Raymond Chandler
Every writer I know has
trouble writing.
- Joseph Heller
If my doctor told me I
had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I’d type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov
Real seriousness in
regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately,
is talent.
- Ernest Hemingway
Writing is the hardest
way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
- Olin Miller
The difficulty of
literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
- Robert Louis
Stevenson
Once the grammar has
been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not
to say.
- Beryl Bainbridge
7 comments:
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I’d type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov
Love this one!
These are going on the bulletin board in my office!
These are always inspiring and affirming. I like the Bellow, Cormier and Asimov.
Always interesting and inspiring to read what other writers say that's quotable. Thanks.
Great quotes. I really enjoyed reading them and seeing who wrote them.
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
So, SO true!
Thank you for posting these. I love them all, but this one strikes me most. :)
So I guess it's a good thing I decided again brain surgeon as a career path.
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