Hooked On Quotes – Page 58 – Editing Addict, LLC

Writer’s Payment

September 2, 2013September 8, 2013Leave a comment

“Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.”

– James Lee Burke

Like Your Biographies, Hate Your Fiction…?

August 31, 2013August 24, 20131 Comment

“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they’re about people the writer doesn’t like very much.”

― Penelope Fitzgerald

The Need to Kill…Your Characters

August 27, 2013August 27, 2013Leave a comment

“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.”

― Caris O’Malley

No Foolish, Unless a Fool

August 23, 2013August 24, 2013Leave a comment

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

― Charles P. Steinmetz

Principles of Fiction…?

August 19, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren’t any.”

― Teri Louise Kelly

More Rhyming, and I Mean It!

August 17, 2013July 21, 2013Leave a comment

“When you’ve got a thing to say,
Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor–
Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers.”

― Joel Chandler Harris

Invented Stories

August 15, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they were intimately about me – family tales, parental exploits – sometimes they became horrific stories sprinkled with torture, death, and reunion: crazy games and tear-soaked sagas.”

― Philippe Grimbert, Memory

Learn By…

August 13, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

A Writer’s Avalanche

August 11, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

When they said, ‘It’s great, Ernest. Truly, it’s great. You cannot know the thing it has,” I wagged my tail in pleasure and plunged into the fiesta concept of life to see if I could not bring some attractive stick back, instead of thinking, ‘If these bastards like it what is wrong with it?’ That was what I would think if I had been functioning as a professional although, if I had been functioning as a professional, I would never have read it to them.”

― Ernest Hemingway

Educate Your Sense

August 9, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

Category: Hooked On Quotes

Writer’s Payment

“Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.”

– James Lee Burke

Like Your Biographies, Hate Your Fiction…?

“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they’re about people the writer doesn’t like very much.”

― Penelope Fitzgerald

The Need to Kill…Your Characters

“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.”

― Caris O’Malley

No Foolish, Unless a Fool

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

― Charles P. Steinmetz

Principles of Fiction…?

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren’t any.”

― Teri Louise Kelly

More Rhyming, and I Mean It!

“When you’ve got a thing to say,
Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor–
Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers.”

― Joel Chandler Harris

Invented Stories

― Philippe Grimbert, Memory

Learn By…

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

A Writer’s Avalanche

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

― Ernest Hemingway

Educate Your Sense

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

“Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.”

– James Lee Burke

Share this:

“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they’re about people the writer doesn’t like very much.”

― Penelope Fitzgerald

Share this:

“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.”

― Caris O’Malley

Share this:

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

― Charles P. Steinmetz

Share this:

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren’t any.”

― Teri Louise Kelly

Share this:

“When you’ve got a thing to say, Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor– Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers.”

― Joel Chandler Harris

Share this:

― Philippe Grimbert, Memory

Share this:

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

Share this:

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

― Ernest Hemingway

Share this:

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

Share this:

“When you’ve got a thing to say,
Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor–
Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers.”