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"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." -Isaac D'Israeli"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." W. Somerset Maugham
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"He is a man of 35, but looks 50. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past 11 in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer." --George Orwell"If there is career satisfaction greater than your own words in published print, I'm not sure what it is." --Grandma Sherle"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way!" --Ernest Hemingway"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite." --C. S. Lewis Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. EdisonIf you make something idiot-proof, they'll come up with a better idiot. - John SeibelPlease click on the buttons below to fight hunger, disease, and deforestation: For FREE with no obligations.
"There is enough to write about if you can write. You will find, peeping out of the earth with the first flowers, stories enough for your pen. In the running water of the brook or the still waters of the lake, there are poems to be caught like fish. All you have to do is to learn to understand, learn to catch a sun ray and keep it in our hand." --Hans Christian Andersen"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates." --Mordecai Richler"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." -Voltaire"I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write 'Madame Bovary', and was that ever on the best-seller list?" - Sylvester Stallone"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." --Mark Twain
"I was thinking, a lot of books that suck get published, so for yours not to get published, it must off-the-charts suck." -- Everybody Loves Raymond"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't think I should be doing something else." --Gloria Steinem"We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas. We know we don't know." --Stephen King"Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down." - Kobi Yamada, Author"I tend to seesaw from 'How am I going to get all these stories told?' to 'Why am I staring at this blank sheet of paper?' with very little in between." --Neil Gaiman"I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed. I have no technical psychological interest. It is drama, speech and events that interest me." -- Evelyn Waugh"Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write my books so when the reader gets to the end of a chapter, he or she must turn one more page. When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded!" -- Sidney Sheldon"To say, 'Well, I write when I really get into it' is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something." -- Erma Bombeck"If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up." --William Saroyan"Rituals? Ridiculous! My only ritual is to sit close enough to the typewriter so that my fingers touch the keys." -- Isaac AsimovPlease click on the buttons below to fight hunger, disease, and deforestation for FREE with no obligations.
