"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
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
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
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)