Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Some Quotes


Authors who never give you something to disagree with never give you anything to think about.
Michael LaRocca

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
Gore Vidal

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.
Tobias Wolff

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy

Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
Hilma Wolitzer

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse

Lv,
Miss Pickwickian

4 comments:

Coffee and Black Ink said...

I love quotes! :)
I really like the one by Tobias Wolff.

dura mater said...

Where'd you get all these? They're really good! I especially like the Gore Vidal one.

Bethany said...

There just quotes from writing quote sites. Yeah, I really like that one too. :-)

Esmeralda Gatsby said...

I love 'em! They all are going into my mudbook! thanks for posting! :)