I haven’t posted one of these in a looooooong time. Good thing I have several. 😀 There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard If …
Daniel Pennac’s The Reader’s Bill of Rights 1. The right not to read. 2. The right to skip pages. 3. The right to not finish. 4. The right to reread. 5. The right to read anything. 6.The right to escapism. 7.The right to read anywhere. 8. The right to browse. …
“This is 10% luck20% skill15% concentrated power of will5% pleasure50% painand 100% reason to remember the name!” – Fort Minor “Remember the Name” The song may be about a rapper but it still applies to any person struggling with an artistic profession. 🙂
Saw this on a t-shirt at RT Con 2009 during the book fair and even got a picture. “English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.” This is a paraphrase of the original quote …
Got three this time. Jessa Slade said this to me after I complained about wanting to be finished writing so I could read the end product. “I don’t like to write, but I love to have written.” ~ Michael Kanin And I found these two while trying to figure out …
Saw this one on a car magnet at work today: “Caution: I drive as badly as you do.”
From Bev on FlameKeeper (Stephanie Burke’s Yahoo loop): IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, PLEASE, FEEL FREE… TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM!!!
