Quotes on Writing
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.
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While tight with concentration on what is being written, the writer has a thought, an insight, a partially articulate concept. The natural response is to think, "I can't stop what I am writing. I'll remember the idea," and continue writing. The writer is wrong. He will not remember it. The thought, the insight, the concept will disappear. It may return, but you will not need it then, or recall when it might have been appropriate.
Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. They are precious, irreplaceable. Stop what you are writing and write them into a notebook, onto a napkin, a scrap of paper. ANYWHERE. They are more important than what you are writing now. What you are writing now is there. It is visible, tangible. You will not lose the mood, the flow, the roll.
Leonard Bishop from the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction (#ad)
Write it, even if you think it's terrible. Don't prevent yourself from jotting down a word, phrase, or paragraph just because it "isn't quite right" or "it won't work." Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but it's better to write it down, you can always edit later. And you don't want to stop yourself before you even get started! The point isn't to use everything you write. You can't be expected to pop out perfect prose your first time out! Write now, edit later.
Cristine Grace (adapted)
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin
I write on the computer and I have a very strange method; I wish I could plot everything out in advance because it would make life easier but it's a very organic process. I sort of work the cases the same way the characters are; we're sort of doing it together. So this may surprise you, but I usually don't know who the killer is until very far into the book. And most people would assume that I've already picked that person; doesn't work that way. I usually find out very close to the time that Scarpetta finds out "oops this is not a good person to be with right now." So I think one thing that's good about that, though, is because I'm a little bit in suspense about what I'm doing, not so sure what's going to happen next, I think that gets translated to the reader and it makes it a little more lively and a little more emotional for them.
Patricia Cornwell from an Imus in the Morning interview on Oct 18, 2012
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach
Pen, paper, perseverance, and proficiency.
Duane Alan Hahn
I write when I'm inspired, and see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Peter De Vries
Be wary of professional writers and writing instructors who tell you, "Quick success in writing can be harmful." The statement is a sly adage dragged out of a long-dead philosophy. The greatest encouragement any writer can experience is instant success. Grab success when you can. Buffer your problems with fame and wealth. Not one of these professional writers or instructors would ever dare tell a realtor who opens an office, "Be careful of doing great business and making great profits. It will spoil you."
From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction (#ad) by Leonard Bishop (adapted)
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Horace
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
Stephen Vizinczey
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Colette
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Christian Nevell Bovee
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote
The first draft of anything is sh*t.
Ernest Hemingway
Review. Reread. Rewrite.
From the book How to Write Better in One Hour (#ad) by George Mair
Rereading reveals rubbish and redundancy.
Duane Alan Hahn
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Clichés are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect the scene he is trying to dramatize enough to fashion it through precise prose and imaginative imagery.
From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction (#ad) by Leonard Bishop (adapted)
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Tryon Edwards
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Edna Ferber
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Quentin Crisp
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Paul J. Meyer
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner
I write to teach myself what I already know.
Duane Alan Hahn
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Robert Cecil Day-Lewis
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding Davis
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that the public will experience a catastrophic loss if he does not complete his novel. The public is just clamoring to give him his fame.
From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction (#ad) by Leonard Bishop
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Leo Rosten
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne Du Maurier
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
Edward Dahlberg
Rewriting ripens what you've written.
Duane Alan Hahn
Did you know that Trump's rushed Operation Warp Speed rona jab has less than one percent overall benefit? Some people call it the depopulation jab and it has many possible horrible side effects (depending on the lot number, concentration, and if it was kept cold). Remember when many Democrats were against Trump's Operation Warp Speed depopulation jab, then they quickly changed their minds when Biden flip-flopped and started pushing it?
Some brainwashed rona jab cultists claim that there are no victims of the jab, but person after person will post what the jab did to them, a friend, or a family member on web sites such as Facebook and they'll be lucky if they don't get banned soon after. Posting the truth is “misinformation” don't you know. Awakened sheep might turn into lions, so powerful people will do just about anything to keep the sheep from waking up.
Check out these videos:
If You Got the COVID Shot and Aren't Injured, This May Be Why
Thought Experiment: What Happens After the Jab?
The Truth About Polio and Vaccines
What Is Causing the Mysterious Self-Assembling Non-Organic Clots and Sudden Deaths?
Take a look at my page about the famous demonized medicines called The H Word and Beyond. You might also want to look at my page called Zinc and Quercetin. My sister and I have been taking zinc and quercetin since the summer of 2020 in the hopes that they would scare away the flu and other viruses (or at least make them less severe). Here's one more page to check out: My Sister's Experiences With COVID-19.
Some people appear to have a mental illness because they have a vitamin B deficiency. For example, the wife of a guy I used to chat with online had severe mood swings which seemed to be caused by food allergies or intolerances. She would became irrational, obnoxious, throw tantrums, and generally act like she had a mental illness. The horrid behavior stopped after she started taking a vitamin B complex. I've been taking Jarrow B-Right (#ad) for many years. It makes me much easier to live with. I wonder how many people with schizophrenia and other mental mental illnesses could be helped by taking a B complex once or twice a day with meals (depending on their weight)?
Unfermented soy is bad! “When she stopped eating soy, the mental problems went away.” Fermented soy doesn't bother me, but the various versions of unfermented soy (soy flour, soybean oil, and so on) that are used in all kinds of products these days causes a negative mental health reaction in me that a vitamin B complex can't tame. The sinister encroachment of soy has made the careful reading of ingredients a necessity.
I started taking AyaLife (99% Pure CBD oil) as needed in April of 2020. So far it's the only thing that helps my mood when I've mistakenly eaten something that contains soy. AyaLife is THC-free (non-psychoactive) and is made in the USA. I also put a couple dropper fulls under my tongue before leaving the house or if I just need to calm down.
It's supposedly common knowledge that constantly angry Antifa-types basically live on soy products. What would happen if they stopped eating and drinking soy sludge and also took a B complex every day? Would a significant number of them become less angry? Would AyaLife CBD oil also help?
If you are overweight, have type II diabetes, or are worried about the condition of your heart, check out the videos by Ken D Berry, William Davis, and Ivor Cummins. It seems that most people should avoid wheat, not just those who have a wheat allergy or celiac disease. Check out these books: Undoctored (#ad), Wheat Belly (#ad), and Eat Rich, Live Long (#ad).
Negative ions are good for us. You might want to avoid positive ion generators and ozone generators. A plain old air cleaner is better than nothing, but one that produces negative ions makes the air in a room fresher and easier for me to breathe. It also helps to brighten my mood.
Never litter. Toss it in the trash or take it home. Do not throw it on the ground. Also remember that good people clean up after themselves at home, out in public, at a campsite and so on. Leave it better than you found it.
Climate Change Cash Grab = Bad
Seems like more people than ever finally care about water, land, and air pollution, but the climate change cash grab scam is designed to put more of your money into the bank accounts of greedy politicians. Those power-hungry schemers try to trick us with bad data and lies about overpopulation while pretending to be caring do-gooders. Trying to eliminate pollution is a good thing, but the carbon footprint of the average law-abiding human right now is actually making the planet greener instead of killing it.
Eliminating farms and ranches, eating bugs, getting locked down in 15-minute cities, owning nothing, using digital currency (with expiration dates) that is tied to your social credit score, and paying higher taxes will not make things better and “save the Earth.” All that stuff is part of an agenda that has nothing to do with making the world a better place for the average person. It's all about control, depopulation, and making things better for the ultra-rich. They just want enough peasants left alive to keep things running smoothly.
Watch these two videos for more information:
Charlie Robinson had some good advice about waking up normies (see the link to the video below). He said instead of verbally unloading or being nasty or acting like a bully, ask the person a question. Being nice and asking a question will help the person actually think about the subject.
Interesting videos:
Charlie Robinson Talks About the Best Way to Wake Up Normies
Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
Writing
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