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Receiving a Long Letter

September 11, 2014June 12, 2014Leave a comment

“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”

— Jean Cocteau

Step Away From Your Work

December 29, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

Sound Off…ONE TWO…Sound Off…THREE FOUR…

December 27, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“The hard part is putting one word after another.”

― Jo Linsdell

Who Are You?

December 23, 2013October 11, 20131 Comment

“Until you know who you are you can’t write.”

― Salman Rushdie

And Then, You Remembered.

December 11, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

― Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe

What Do I Know? I’m Not Sure…

December 5, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.”

― Patricia Hampl

Don’t Twain Yourself

November 27, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

― Mark Twain

Happy, & Now You Know It

November 13, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it’s a big deal to bow–or kneel or get knocked down–to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else’s. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.”

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Receiving a Long Letter

“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”

— Jean Cocteau

Step Away From Your Work

“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

Sound Off…ONE TWO…Sound Off…THREE FOUR…

“The hard part is putting one word after another.”

― Jo Linsdell

Who Are You?

“Until you know who you are you can’t write.”

― Salman Rushdie

And Then, You Remembered.

“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

― Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe

What Do I Know? I’m Not Sure…

“I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.”

― Patricia Hampl

Don’t Twain Yourself

“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

― Mark Twain

Happy, & Now You Know It

― Patricia Hampl

Time and Words

“So many words, so little time.”

― S. Kelley Harrell

Oceanic U.S.S. Writer

“Writing is a vessel…with readers the ocean and authors as its sails…”

― William Petersen

“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”

— Jean Cocteau

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“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

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“The hard part is putting one word after another.”

― Jo Linsdell

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“Until you know who you are you can’t write.”

― Salman Rushdie

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“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

― Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe

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“I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.”

― Patricia Hampl

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“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

― Mark Twain

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― Patricia Hampl

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“So many words, so little time.”

― S. Kelley Harrell

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“Writing is a vessel…with readers the ocean and authors as its sails…”

― William Petersen

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