Gustave Flaubert - Art of Writing

November 17, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

~ Gustave Flaubert

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Douglas Adams - Deadlines & Writing

November 13, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

- Douglas Adams

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Douglas Adams - Deadlines & Writing

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

November 2, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns & sparkles with light.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

George Orwell - Story Clarity

October 26, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

~ George Orwell

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George Orwell - Story Clarity

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Writing

October 21, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Writing

Ralph Ellison - Bridges

October 20, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

~ Ralph Ellison

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Ralph Ellison - Bridges

Allen Ginsberg - Voice

October 19, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.

~ Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg - Voice

Saul Bellow - Write at Night

October 18, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

~ Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow - Write at Night

Louisa May Alcott - Sunshine

October 17, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow… #LouisaMayAlcott #quote #writing #sunshine #shotoniphone #storyon

Alcott - Sunrise

Robert Louis Stevenson - Scenery

October 16, 2016 Filed in: Author Quote

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature. #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #storyon #quote

Stevenson - Scenery

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Jim Henson

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.

John Appleseed

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

Richard Bach

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Margaret Atwood

You have only one life to live and it mustn’t be wronged.

Anton Chekov

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Robert Bly

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

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

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.

H.G. Wells

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Hermann Broch

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.

Richard Bach

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Richard Rosen

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Horace

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.

John Ashbery

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.

Robert Graves

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

John Burroughs

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

W. E. B. Du Bois