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Wed 8 Jun 2016

Writers

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

—Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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Thu 2 Jun 2016

Reasons to write

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.”

—Carolyn Kizer, quoted in The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear by Ralph Keyes

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Thu 19 May 2016

As you like it

Posted by PJ under metaphors, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

—Oscar Wilde, “The Poets’ Corner III,” The Pall Mall Gazette, May 30, 1887

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Wed 4 May 2016

Emoting

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, stories, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Find the key emotion; this may be all you need to know to find your short story.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

(I couldn’t verify he said it, but it’s widely attributed to him, and the advice is sound, so…)

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Tue 26 Apr 2016

Periphrasis

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, words, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

—Winston Churchill, acceptance speech, Times Literary Award, 9 November 1949

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Wed 13 Apr 2016

Chancing it

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, risk, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Get it all down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that’s the only was you can do anything really good.”

—William Faulkner, quoted in Malcolm Cowley, The Faulkner-Cowley File

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Thu 7 Apr 2016

For the gods

Posted by PJ under gods, journals, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“My Journal is that of me which would else spill over and run to waste, gleanings from the field which in action I reap. I must not live for it, but in it for the gods. They are my correspondents, to whom daily I send off this sheet postpaid.”

—Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, February 8, 1841

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Thu 31 Mar 2016

Endless childhood

Posted by PJ under childhood, growing up, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for—if you are honest—you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.”

—P. L. Travers, quoted in Sticks and Stones by Jack Zipes

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Tue 15 Mar 2016

Storytelling

Posted by PJ under plot, quote of the day, stories, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The story is not in the plot but in the telling.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft

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Tue 1 Mar 2016

Night

Posted by PJ under driving, quote of the day, scenes from the commute, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“[The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

—E. L. Doctorow, The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101

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