If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles, 1915-1985 He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone. Paul Theroux There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou You never have to change …
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Apr 04
Quote of the week: March roundup
It’s splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts. Gustave Flaubert, 1821 – 1880 Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. Louisa May Alcott, 1832 – 1888 Stories may well be lies, but …
Mar 02
Quote of the week: February roundup
Look out how you use proud words. Carl Sandburg, 1878 – 1967 Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov, 1920 – 1992 It’s an honorable profession. Homer founded it. It’s not bad company you’re in when you make your living telling stories. Stephen Ambrose, 1936 – 2002 Great is the art …
Feb 04
Quote of the week: January roundup
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924 Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time. Samuel …
Dec 31
Quote of the week: December roundup
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time. Samuel Butler 1835-1902 The good parts are the people who don’t make do. They’re the interesting people. Lear doesn’t make do. Peter O’Toole 1932-2013 All great …
Nov 03
Quote of the week: October roundup
Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public. Paulo Coelho I can’t write five words but that I change seven. Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967 You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the …
Sep 30
Quote of the week: September roundup
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! T. E. Lawrence, 1888-1935 The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. …
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1929-1994 Since you aren’t six anymore, I won’t force you to do what’s best for your writing. But I am a compassionate critic and care about your feelings as well as your success!