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so i found this really cool site with awesome quotes by, for, and about writers. <3 it's awesomeness. it makes me happy. the new quote on my profile is one of the many if found there. here be the site.
Here are a few more quotes: "Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
"Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such." ~Samuel Butler
"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." ~Author Unknown
"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write." ~Sinclair Lewis
"It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do." ~Uniek Swain
"If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams." ~Danzae Pace
"Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life." ~James Norman Hall
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." ~Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947
"Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it." ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964
"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant." ~Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963
"Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all." ~Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927
"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." ~George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)
so true "I do not like to write - I like to have written." ~Gloria Steinem
This one makes me happy inside. <3 "Imitation is the highest form of pissing me off. Quit stealing my content and violating my copyright." ~Jen T. Verbumessor
This one. . . I'm not so sure about. I don't know whether to laugh or cry so I sit here and stare. . . "The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." ~Ray Bradbury
blu_sour_skittle · Fri Feb 08, 2008 @ 06:14pm · 1 Comments |
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