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Master of Words

October 10, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…”

― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

Simple Instructions

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“Write. Publish. Repeat.”

― Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Experience Your Writing

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“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.”

― Jeanette Michelle

Guilty…So Says The Literary Critic

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“To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.”

― Nelson Algren

A Critic’s Praise, Unfound

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“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”

― Richard Le Gallienne

Did I Write That?

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“Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.”

― Joyce Carol Oates

How Sharp Is Your Pen?

September 28, 2013September 18, 2013Leave a comment

“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

Never Give Up, Throw Something

September 26, 2013September 18, 2013Leave a comment

“That’s the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can’t be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn’t just walk off the mound and weep.”

― Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959

Write For Fun, For Life

September 24, 2013September 18, 2013Leave a comment

“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing, and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.”

― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Show Me The Egress!

September 22, 2013September 18, 20132 Comments

Category: Hooked On Quotes

Master of Words

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…”

― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

Simple Instructions

“Write. Publish. Repeat.”

― Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Experience Your Writing

“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.”

― Jeanette Michelle

Guilty…So Says The Literary Critic

“To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.”

― Nelson Algren

A Critic’s Praise, Unfound

“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”

― Richard Le Gallienne

Did I Write That?

“Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.”

― Joyce Carol Oates

How Sharp Is Your Pen?

“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

Never Give Up, Throw Something

“That’s the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can’t be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn’t just walk off the mound and weep.”

― Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959

Write For Fun, For Life

“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing, and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.”

― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Show Me The Egress!

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

― Vincent H. O’Neil, Death Troupe

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…”

― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

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“Write. Publish. Repeat.”

― Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.”

― Jeanette Michelle

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“To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.”

― Nelson Algren

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“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”

― Richard Le Gallienne

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“Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.”

― Joyce Carol Oates

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“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

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“That’s the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can’t be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn’t just walk off the mound and weep.”

― Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959

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“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing, and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.”

― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

― Vincent H. O’Neil, Death Troupe

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