Thursday Thirteen #8 - My Fave Writing Quotes

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Memorable Writing Quotes I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931 Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. ~Peter De Vries Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~English Professor (Name Unknown), Ohio University Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler Be obscure clearly. ~E.B. White Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracián All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson




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