We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.
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John Gardner
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Christmas time is here
We’ll be drawing near
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year…
Charlie Brown’s Christmas
The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
Jacques Barzu
I have read wonderful books that are entirely unsatisfactory to me because I do not believe the author was writing a story. The author was writing a book. There is a difference.
Kaitlyn Ramsey
I want to do something splendid … something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead … I think I shall write books.
Louisa May Alcott