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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
--Edgar Allen Poe
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition. --Graham Greene
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.--Graham Greene
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--Edith Wharton
Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.--Jack London
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.--Jack London
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.--John Steinbeck
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.--Joseph Conrad
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.--Somerset Maugham
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”--Anton Chekhov
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”--Ray Bradbury
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”--Orson Scott Card
To my writer friends....write on!
To all the rest, make the most of your day and,,,
Thanks for reading.
Many have said simply, "Write what you know." I say "make what you don't know worth writing about."
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ed.