Quotes
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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it’s to keep its edge.” –George R.R. Martin, in A Game of Thrones It’s been a while since I’ve read A Game of Thrones (though I plan to revist the books again sometime in the near future), but this quote has always been one…
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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach I was scoping out this article about what to do when you don’t feel like writing (an absurd concept, really, but I thought it would be helpful for those times when I can’t focus on writing), and they used this quote to emphasize…
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“When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” -George Bernard Shaw. Interesting Literature posted yet another great set of quotes, this one from George Bernard Shaw, and this was easily the first to really grab me. It’s…
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“He who is afraid to to use an ‘I’ in his writing will never make a good writer.” -Lin Yutang I recently came across this quote in a book about hsiao-p’in poetry, describing how hsiao-p’in distinguished itself by being much more personal. Instead of tapping into the grand universal truths of the world, they looked…
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“In the case of good books the point is not how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.”–Mortimer Adler. This beauty popped up on another great quote post from interesting literature, one I take a particular liking to after Lauralynn Elliott‘s Facebook post asking how man…
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“Love is easy, and I love writing.” -Ray Bradbury. And I love Ray Bradbury (though I could really stand to have read more of his work). He’s easily the most quoted author on my blog, and I keep stumbling across more kernels of wisdom from him, making me decide that I would have really loved…
L.S. Engler 