“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.” ~ Lord Byron
“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.” ~ Charles Peguy
“If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don’t remove it – I might be writing in my dreams.” ~ Danzae Pace
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” ~ Anaïs Nin
I have been collecting a few more quotes. Quotes are wonderful. Quotes are memorable. And when done just right, quotes are awe inspiring.
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” — Joss Whedon
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ” — Joss Whedon
“I dream for a living.” — Steven Spielberg
I don’t think you can write – at least not well – if you don’t love stories, love the written word. — Nora Roberts
Quotes on TV today! Gees, it was the busiest weekend ever. Or so it felt like. *sigh* I have to shape up a synopsis on a refreshed proposal then send to my agent. I’m taking my time with this one because I’m moving into a new subgenre. It’s a little scary writing out of your comfort zone, but sometimes you just got to take the leap, you know?
*raising coffee cup* Here’s to leaping!
David Letterman
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.”
From “Taxi”
“The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.”
Orson Welles
“I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.”
David Frost
“Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Happy Monday. Would anyone like some quotes…?
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.” ~ Anonymous
“Never confuse movement with action.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
“Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.” ~ Ralph Novak
“The cure for writer’s cramp is writer’s block.” ~ Inigo DeLeon
“My work is a game, a very serious game.” ~ M. C. Escher
“A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of.” ~ Burt Bacharach
Good Monday to you! Starting off the week with a few interesting quotes. I have writing on my agenda and a date with a pumpkin patch. 
Stephen King
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.”Paul Valery
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”Ezra Pound
“Literature is news that stays news.”Ray Bradbury
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”G. K. Chesterton
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
Obviously this has been a week without writing, but Monday I’m ready to start fresh! I’ll sign off this week with my latest batch of quotes.
“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ~ Mark Twain“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.” ~ Daphne du Maurier
“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.” ~ Howard Aiken
“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.” ~ Peter De Vries
“Literature is news that stays news.” ~ Ezra Pound
“I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.” ~ Clarence Budington Kelland
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ~ E. L. Doctorow
This last one is so true!
Yesterday was the first day I did some serious writing since I’ve been planning promotional stuff. Promo is so distracting. I feel really scatterbrained when thinking about it and I can’t concentrate.
Especially when I’m writing, it becomes tough for me to blog.
So you know how I like quotes…
“I never know how much of what I say is true.” – Bette Midler“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.” – Phyllis Diller
“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” – Fred Allen
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” – Anthony Burgess
“I’m kind of jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.” – Zach Braff
“After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.’” – Ronnie Shakes
What do you know? I’m at my 500th blog entry. Craaazy. Since I must go watch the Golden Globes this evening–you know, to see which movies to add to my watchlist. I mean, it doesn’t have anything to do with celebrities and fancy dresses or anything–I have more good quotes to share!
Martin Myers
“First you’re an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.”
Dr. Seuss
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
William Dement
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
Franklin P. Jones
“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
Dave Barry
“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
I like to collect quotes. Sometimes my list starts become too long, so I thought I’d post a few of my latest faves here…
Hunter S. Thompson
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
Mark Twain
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Jimmy Buffett
“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.”
Terry Pratchett
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
Frank Tibolt
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
Douglas Adams
“Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.”
“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
– Elie Wiesel
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
–Jack London
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
–Robert Benchley
“Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.”
–Edmund Morrison
Ahhhh, I love these quotes… =)
