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Post by Flatiron on Apr 1, 2011 1:31:33 GMT -5
Got a great writing quote? Share it here. There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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Post by butterflywings on Apr 1, 2011 1:36:14 GMT -5
If the pants fit, write by the seat of them - someone on JanNo (or FebNo) and adopted by me!
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Post by Flatiron on Apr 1, 2011 1:44:27 GMT -5
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
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Post by marsbareater12 on Apr 1, 2011 4:17:59 GMT -5
Butterfly-I think that was Siana
Uhh, no quotes here. Move along, move along.
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Post by butterflywings on Apr 1, 2011 11:49:00 GMT -5
Great! I wondered who, but felt far too lazy to check. I figured I'd find it around Jan, or Feb next year. LOL
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Post by Flatiron on Apr 1, 2011 14:29:38 GMT -5
I saw that in Siana's sig... very good one, and nicely apropos for a WriMo. Write wearing the pants you're wearing.
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Post by SianaBlackwood on Apr 1, 2011 20:31:49 GMT -5
Nice to see I'm remembered for all my wonderful, sage advice... There was a whole thread I called 'advice for pantsers' over on JanNo that started with "1. Wear pants" and only got weirder as it went on... Oh, hi everyone. My favourite writing quote is by Stephen King: "Not writing is the real work."
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Post by butterflywings on Apr 2, 2011 11:01:57 GMT -5
Yes. Weird thread. But fun! And highly quotable. LOL.
I agree with that last one, btw.
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Post by Flatiron on Apr 4, 2011 17:39:56 GMT -5
...do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less so than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. ~ Max Ehrmann
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Post by SianaBlackwood on Apr 4, 2011 22:12:48 GMT -5
"The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what all these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience.
Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("But of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.
You don't live there always when you write. Mostly, it's a long hard walk. Sometimes it's a trudge through fog and you're scared you've lost your way and can't remember why you set out in the first place. But sometimes you FLY, and that pays for everything."
Neil Gaiman
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Post by Flatiron on Apr 27, 2011 11:27:14 GMT -5
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
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Post by writersblock on May 14, 2011 8:11:52 GMT -5
If the pants fit, write by the seat of them - someone on JanNo (or FebNo) and adopted by me! I thought it was on MayNo
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Post by SianaBlackwood on May 14, 2011 21:34:15 GMT -5
'If the pants fit, write by the seat of them' has probably turned up on every wrimo since January - I first came up with it for JanNo (I think) and I've kept using it since then.
Another quote I like, while I'm here:
"Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything."
- Neil Gaiman
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Post by Flatiron on May 20, 2011 15:50:52 GMT -5
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Ken Kesey, “The Art of Fiction CXXXVI”, The Paris Review, 1994.
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Post by SianaBlackwood on May 22, 2011 5:22:55 GMT -5
"Having voices in your head is normal. Listening to them, common. Arguing, acceptable. However, when you lose the argument, you're in trouble." Or you could be a writer. Don't know who wrote it - one of those things people 'like' on facebook.
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