“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten, –happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.” Brenda Ueland
Thursday Quote: E. L. Doctorow
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” E. L. Doctorow A special quote for an excellent writing teacher’s birthday. Happy belated, Kevin Miller, thanks for teaching me that you can drive all the way [...]
Thursday Quote: Melissa Scott
“Writing isn’t generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing something about which we feel passionately. Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes [...]
Thursday Quote: Advice on the Subject of Adverbs and Adjectives
“The adjective is the enemy of the noun.” Voltaire “As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out.” Mark Twain “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” Stephen King
Thursday Quote: Kurt Vonnegut
“I guarantee you that no modern story scheme, even plotlessness, will give a reader genuine satisfaction, unless one of those old-fashioned plots is smuggled in somewhere. I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways of keeping readers reading. When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell students to make [...]
Thursday Quote: Clarence Budington Kelland
“I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.” Clarence Budington Kelland
Thursday Quote: Ernest Hemingway (assisted by Joseph Hansen)
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places [...]
Thursday Quote: William Safire
Great Rules of Writing Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives [...]
Thursday Quote: Isaac Asimov
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” Isaac Asimov
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed learning about young Irish-Americans from Troy, NY’s past (not to mention admiring their stylish mustaches). To learn more about those men, and many more, get a copy of Representative Young Irish-Americans of Troy, NY. Now put on your best green duds and go prance through a field of shamrocks (and don’t forget to [...]
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