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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


 "Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.”
- William Faulkner

Monday, September 29, 2014

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“A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.”
- Joseph Conrad

Sunday, September 28, 2014

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"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!"
- Ray Bradbury


Saturday, September 27, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
-Virginia Woolf-

Friday, September 26, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-



"Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer."
- Barbara Kingsolver

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


"As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out."
-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


  "The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Monday, September 22, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-

 

"It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."
- Ernest Hemingway

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-



"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties." 
 -W. Somerset Maugham

Saturday, September 20, 2014

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"Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed."
-John Banville

Friday, September 19, 2014

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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
-Anaïs Nin

Thursday, September 18, 2014

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  "Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time."
            Florence King-

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short."
- Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
- Herman Melville

Monday, September 15, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


 
"Writers do draw inspiration from their lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction."
-Monica Johnson

Sunday, September 14, 2014

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 "If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor."
- Edgar Rice Burroughs


Saturday, September 13, 2014

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 "No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published."
-Russell Lynes

Friday, September 12, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


  

 "All the information you need can be given in dialogue."
- Elmore Leonard

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day




 "Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up."
- Jane Yolen

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-



"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition."
- Isaac Asimov

Monday, September 8, 2014

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"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."
-Samuel Johnson

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


"If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I might be writing in my dreams."
-Terri Guillemets

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day


"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make."
 -Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967

Friday, September 5, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day




 "Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day


"A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."
-W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


"Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say."
-Sharon O'Brien

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
-Agatha Christie

Monday, September 1, 2014

Writing Quote of the Day-


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