POST CARDS FROM THE MUSE
Quotes
By Nandy Ekle
- “From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.” —Winston Churchill
- “I get a lot of letters from people. They say: ‘I want to be a writer. What should I do?’ I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.” —Ruth Rendell
- “The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” —Mary Heaton Vorse
- “Revising a story down to the bear essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.” —Stephen King
- “If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers” —Irvin S. Cobb
- “If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.” —Doug Larson
- “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” —Douglas Adams
- “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” —Ernest Hemingway
- “Amateurs sit and wait or inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” —Stephen King
- “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.” —Franz Kafka
- “When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: ‘House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.” —Neil Gaiman
- “Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. —Joss Whedon
- “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.” —Ernst Hemingway
- “Nothing’s a better cure for writer’s block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.” —Don Roff
- “Good fiction create its own reality” —Nora Roberts
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