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February 28th, 2011In Ireland, a
writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.
--Anonymous February 27th, 2011I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
--Charles Darwin February 26th, 2011I am being frank
about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
--Henry Kissinger February 25th, 2011Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
--Samuel Johnson February 24th, 2011Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.
--Henry Herbert February 23rd, 2011Begin with
another's to end with your own.
--Baltasar Gracian February 22nd, 2011Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
--Barbara G. Harris February 21st, 2011An original
writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
--Francois Rene De Chateaubriand February 20th, 2011Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
--Nancy Banks-Smith February 19th, 2011I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); their names are what, why and when & How, Where and Who.
-Rudyard Kiplin February 18th, 2011I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
--Peter De Vries February 17th, 2011If my doctor told me I had
only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
--Isaac Asimov February 16th, 2011Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.
--Jeb Dickerson February 15th, 2011A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
--Karl Kraus February 14th, 2011Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
--Author Unknown February 13th, 2011The difference between the
right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a
lightning bug.
--Mark Twain February 12th, 2011A metaphor is like a simile.
--Author Unknown February 11th, 2011Metaphors have a way of
holding the most truth in the least space.
--Orson Scott Card February 10th, 2011Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.
--Terri Guillemets February 9th, 2011Easy reading is damn hard
writing.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne February 8th, 2011Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
--Anton Chekhov February 7th, 2011Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
--William Wordsworth February 6th, 2011The wastebasket is a writer's
best friend.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer February 5th, 2011I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
--James Michener February 4th, 2011Substitute "damn"
every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete
it and the writing will be just as it should be.
--Mark Twain February 3rd, 2011Writing 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 February 2nd, 2011What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
--Logan Pearsall Smith February 1st, 2011If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
--Toni Morrison |