Quotes Category
Verily, Verily I Say Unto You, Emphatically
Posted on November 13, 2013 Leave a Comment
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” — Stephen King
How to Make Your Writing as Good as Your Ambition
Posted on November 12, 2013 1 Comment
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has […]
Let Go
Posted on October 23, 2013 2 Comments
Thanks to Fenton Johnson, who shared this quote recently from philosopher Alan Watts at the Writing by Writers conference. Belief is the insistence that the truth is what one would like or wish it to be. Faith is the unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has […]
Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Posted on October 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
You may have already heard. But for all of us short story writers out there, who aren’t sure they have a novel in them, this is for you from Alice: “I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you […]
The Best Training
Posted on May 28, 2012 8 Comments
“The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work. Don’t lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.” — Grace Paley Photo: Daehyun Park / Flickr Creative Commons
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