Quotes
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“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.” -Sydney Smith I’m keeping things fairly short and simple today; often, on Saturday mornings, I have difficulty…
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“‘If you steal from one author, it’s research; if you steal from many…it’s research.” -Wilson Mizner. Let us fall into aphorisms for a moment and consider the suggestion that imitation is the best form of flattery. I know that I have a…well, you could call it a knack, you could call it a bad habit…of…
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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. There can be a lot to say about a single work that someone pours their entire heart into, working it from every angle and every revision until it is utterly and…
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Something very fascinating and very cool happened to me last week that, in the midst of moving and RoW80, I haven’t had a chance to really write about yet, and so I’m finally doing so now. When I’m out of ideas for something to write, I’ll usual scour quote pages for good writer quotes to…
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“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.” -Andre Jute. This morning, while I was struggling to think of something to write in this blog today, I was also struggling with the words I had written yesterday for the 6 Month Challenge. I wasn’t pleased with how…
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I have spent far too much time this morning trying to decide what to write in this little space today. I wondered if it was just me, if I was just feeling uninspired this morning, but I realized, after a bit more consideration, that it’s mostly just the usual weekend rut. Working retail, my schedule…
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“My books aren’t trying to fathom the mysteries of human existence. I’m an entertainer.” – Bernard Cornwall. When I wake up in the morning and decide to do a Writer Quote post, I usually don’t have a particular quote in mind. I go searching through various and sundry snippets from writers and writing enthusiasts until…
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“A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.” – W. Somerset Maugham Lacking in anything interesting to write about today, I went on the hunt for a thoughtful writer quote, knowing them to be fairly popular with regular readers and random wanderers alike. In the Necessary…
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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” -Richard Bach. Sometimes, I wonder what the heck I’m doing with this whole writer thing and wondering if I have any sort of capacity for enough talent to make it worthwhile. I’ve started following the blogs of a lot of people who astound me, people who…
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Actually, today will be the complete opposite of a manic Monday, and it will be glorious. One benefit, I suppose, to having retail jobs is that most of the time, you’re working a lot on the weekends and, when it comes to be Monday, when the majority of the world grumps about going back to…
L.S. Engler 