Happy Memorial Day to everyone in the US! Hope the weather is beautiful wherever you are, and that your grill gives plenty of bounty. :)
I've got some more great quotes for you today. Enjoy!
I've got some more great quotes for you today. Enjoy!
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells
us the truth about its author.
- G K Chesterton
Don't get it right; just get it written.
- James Thurber
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen
King
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or
imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are
interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have
nothing to write about...)
- C.S. Lewis
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
- Margaret Atwood
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or
perhaps.
- Robert Charles Benchley
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them,
and pretty soon you have a dozen.
- John Steinbeck
Read, read, read. Read
everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an
apprentice and studies the master.
Read! You'll absorb it. Then write.
- William Faulkner
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and
open up a vein.
- Walter Smith
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
- Jean De La Bruyere
10 comments:
I love the second to last comment. Too funny!
That James Thurber quote is one of my favorites. I pretty much chant it to myself when I'm starting a new project. :-)
The Steinbeck one is funny.
Like the De Vries one and so understand Atwood :)
I like the Atwood one, and I'm planning to read a book of hers this summer.
Love quotes! I like the Atwood quote.
A good selection! I'd add this one - "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." William Feather (US author)
All very good! The C.S. Lewis quote reminds me of a couple people I've known whose sole purpose for writing is to be published.
I agree with Lewis, that you have to LIVE and be involved in order to have something worthy of writing about.
Hi, I really enjoy your blog and wonder if you have a contact address? Would love to ask you more re your experience with ICL. Thanks so much and hope you receive this.
Jill
Hi Jill, sorry for the late response. I'm taking the summer off to revise, but I'll be back with regular posts in the fall.
My contact info is in my profile, but I'll post it here, too, to make it easier
tabwriter (at) gmail dot com
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