“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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Thursday Quote: Burton Rascoe
“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.” Burton Rascoe
Thursday Quote: Lord Chesterfield
“Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.” Lord Chesterfield “A man of letters”