"If you start to revise before you've reached the end,
you're likely to begin dawdling with the
revisions and putting off the
difficult task of writing."
~ Pearl S. Buck
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Author Quotes
"Words need to be crafted, not sprayed. They need
to be fitted together with infinite care."
~ Norman Cousins
to be fitted together with infinite care."
~ Norman Cousins
Author Quotes
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can.
Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
~ Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
~ Ernest Hemingway
Author Quotes
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another.
One tears it from his guts. The other pulls
it out of his overcoat pocket."
~ Charles Peguy
One tears it from his guts. The other pulls
it out of his overcoat pocket."
~ Charles Peguy
Author Quotes
"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are,
what you believe, shine through every sentence you
write, every piece you finish."
~ John Jakes
what you believe, shine through every sentence you
write, every piece you finish."
~ John Jakes
Author Quotes
"The drudgery of being a professional writer comes in trying
to make good days out of bad days and in squeezing out
the words when they won't just flow."
~ Benjamin Cavell
to make good days out of bad days and in squeezing out
the words when they won't just flow."
~ Benjamin Cavell
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." ~John Irving
Thought for the Week
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write." ~ Sinclair Lewis
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ~ Harriet Tubman
Author Quotes
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Author Quotes
"Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes." ~ Mark Twain
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
"There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire." --Bliss Carman
Quotes
"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it." -- Sir Laurence Olivier, actor
Thought for the Week
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"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
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." --Judy Garland
Author Quotes
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened." -- Billy Graham, evangelist and author
Author Quotes
"Nobody succeeds beyond their wildest expectations unless they begin with wild expectations." -- Ralph Charell, author
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing." ~ Richard North Patterson
Thought for the Week
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the centre of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write." ~ Natalie Goldberg
Author Quotes
"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium." ~ Norbet Platt
Thought for the Week
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"The mark of a really great writer is that he or she gives expression to what the masses of mankind think or feel without knowing it. The mediocre writer simply writes what everyone would have said." ~ G.C. Lichtenberg, 1799
Author Quotes
"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this." ~ Cormac McCarthy
Author Quotes
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." --William Arthur Ward
Author Quotes
"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed." ~ P.G. Wodehouse
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end. ~ Joan Chittister
Author Quotes
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." --Peter Marshal
Author Quotes
"If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow." ~ Louis L'Amour
Author Quotes
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." ~ Charles Peguyq
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS Why worry? Look at all the things we have and be happy. ~ Araceli Segarra
Thought for the Week
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK "The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them." ~ Raymond Chandler
Author Quotes
"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way." ~ Richard Harding Davis
Author Quotes
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ~ William James
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight." --Vaclav Havel
Words of Success
WORDS OF SUCCESS
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. ~Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Thought for the Week
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult." ~ Stephen Leacock
Author Quotes
" You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills." -- Jim Rohn, author and speaker
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