“Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”
—Katherine Mansfield
Entries Tagged 'Quotations' ↓
Better to write twaddle…
May 26th, 2010 — Quotations, Wordless Wednesday
Finger posts
May 12th, 2010 — Encouragement, Quotations, Wordless Wednesday
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
—C. S. Lewis
Word pictures
April 28th, 2010 — Quotations, Wordless Wednesday
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
—Anton Chekhov
You must write it
April 14th, 2010 — Quotations
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
—Toni Morrison
Image by Kevin Dooley under Creative Commons license
A miraculous feeling of words
March 24th, 2010 — Quotations
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”
—Vladimir Nabakov
On revising
March 10th, 2010 — Editing & Revising, Quotations
“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.”
—James Michener
Photo by Phil Hilfiker / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
A process of discovery
February 24th, 2010 — Quotations
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ”
—Sharon O’Brien
The breathings of your heart
February 10th, 2010 — Encouragement, Quotations
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
—William Wordsworth
Words matter
January 27th, 2010 — Encouragement, Quotations
Words matter:
write to
Learn what
you know.
—mary anne radmacher
© Mary Anne Radmacher. Used by permission.
What you really want to say
January 13th, 2010 — Editing & Revising, Quotations
