These may make you laugh at first, but seriously, they do speak truth ...LOADS of truth!
I am interested in seeing your responses as to which is your favorite! (and why...)
ENJOY
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams
PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world -- they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
- C. N. Bovee
Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
- Anthony Burgess
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- Truman Capote
My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more - and it is everything.
- Joseph Conrad
A word is dead/When it is said,/Some say./I say it just begins/to live that day.
- Emily Dickinson
The virtue of books is to be readable.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
- Gene Fowler
More to come!
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"Litterature is all, or mostly, about sex."
I don't know what Anthony Burgess is trying to say by that quote but I only somewhat agree; good litteratue is NOT all, or mostly about sex... only bad litterature is.
I think (for those of you who ever indulge) of bad Urban-litterature; sex, sex, sex... you don't even know what the story is anywmore!
And you know what I personally find? That writers who focus on sex are trying to cover up bad writing because at the end of the day, sex sells... no matter what!
But we're talking about the type of sex that's "Holywood". It doesnt add much to the story or the plot. It isn't "earned" to use a concept learned in class. You can tell after the writer was done s/he goes back and puts... insert sex scene here, and here, and there and...! Or maybe the editor tells them to.
Really, readers are not stupid, they can see through "sex sells" scenes rather than "necessary sex" writing. I'm thinking here of celebrated Urban novelist Eric Jerome Dickey. Over 10 novels, and only his first few ones have substance even though they contain sex. His last novels, as his popularity increased... are sex saturated, for lack of a better expression. He needs to switch genres already and start writing for erotica!
My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more - and it is everything.
- Joseph Conrad
Conrad is not my favorite writer out there due to the racist tone of most of his work but does he ever make you see and feel! I'll give him artistic merit anyday, everyday; he knows what he's talking about here because he does just that; he makes you see and especially he lets you feel. "Heart of Darkness" is a prime example of this author practicing what he preaches.
Make them feel, make them hear, and make them see; that's the kind of writer I aspire to be the second my pen touches that piece of paper, or rather, the second my fingers touch that keyboard :)
Obviously practice is what will make perfect.
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