quotes
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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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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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“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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Everyone, when they start out writing a blog, has a particular intention, whether it be just to get their thoughts out, to spark a following, to promote their work, so on and so forth. This blog, when I started writing it, was a combination of all three of those, as well as an effort (a…
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“Writing 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 Lately, I have been dedicating most of my spare time to my various writing projects and I realized, when talking about this a little with…
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“Writer’s block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.” -Terry Guillemets. Though I cannot exactly say I’m suffering from writer’s block at this moment (I’m suffering more of a lack of time), I have to appreciate this quote for all the times I’ve sat there, desiring nothing more than to just…
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -Vladimir Nabakov I have been a very busy bee this weekend, some of it voluntary, some of it not so much. As a result, not only have I been seeing…
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“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.” ~James Michener Amen to that, brother. There are a lot of great quotes out there by writers, but I think if there were any I would put in fancy writing, frame, and hang in my room somewhere, I think it just might have to…
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury At this exact moment in time, something rare is happening with me. I am not stressed out. I am not too terribly worried or concerned, be it with work or money or my writing or anything thing else. I realize that…
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When I was thinking of a quote to post today for lack of anything else to really write about, I came across one that I find a real encouragement. I did, out of curiosity, read the next one on the list I was going through and decided that the one that followed was just as…
L.S. Engler 