Quotations

Reality Can Not Destroy You

January 12, 2012

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury

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Themes, Creativity, and Constraints

December 24, 2011

Creativity is about constraints. Weirdly, many people seem to see creativity as the opposite, as being about expansion. We must think outside the box. We must generate ideas. The problem of how to be creative is the problem of thinking up things. But this is wrong. Or in any case, the opposite is just as [...]

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Here is Everything I’ve Cherished

December 21, 2011

Write it down, when I have perished: Here is everything I’ve cherished; That these walls should glow with beauty Spurred my lagging soul to duty; That there should be gladness here Kept me toiling, year by year… Every thought and every act Were to keep this home intact. -Edgar A. Guest

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Hope Begins at the Bus Stop

December 3, 2011

This is just how I felt waiting outside in the dark, half an hour standing in the pouring rain at the bus stop. I was soaked through when I finally got home. Right through my Winter coat, even my bra was wet. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show [...]

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RIP Anne McCaffrey

November 23, 2011

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale. I don’t often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating [...]

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Procrastination and Writers

November 9, 2011

Writers procrastinate because they do not feel inspired. Feeling inspired is a luxury. Writing, often excellent writing, can be done without the benefit of feeling inspired. What writers tell themselves while they procrastinate is that they just don’t have enough ideas yet, and when they do, then they’ll start writing. It actually works exactly backward. When we [...]

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Favourite Photography Quotes

November 1, 2011

From the Boing Boing forum on Flickr come these photography quotations picked by forum readers: “Photography…it’s the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody with a point-and-shoot camera can take a competent picture. But it’s the hardest medium in which to have, to express, some kind of personal vision. Because there is no touch, [...]

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Useful to the Rulers of the World

October 30, 2011

Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

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Writing wants to be Written

October 25, 2011

The brain enjoys writing. It enjoys the act of naming things, the process of association and discernment. Picking words is like picking apples: this one looks delicious. Writing – and this is a big secret – wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your [...]

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Words are a Form of Action

October 1, 2011

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. – Ingrid Bengis

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Writing as Discovery

September 23, 2011

“The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it [...]

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Quotes from a Soap Opera

September 9, 2011

I laughed at a line spoken by David Vickers. I don’t know if I have it typed exactly, I tried to be quick while it was circulating around in my head. Then I picked up a few more when I tried to find the first quote, to see if anyone else had picked it up [...]

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There is No Cure for Curiousity

August 7, 2011

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker

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The Tongue of your Mind

August 6, 2011

“The pen is the tongue of the mind”. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Gifted by Nature and by Practice

August 1, 2011

Posted by Jade Walker on Facebook: ‎”You have to love writing. You have to love words. You have to be talented, gifted by nature and by practice. You have to get lucky. So many things outside of your influence have to break in your favor, and that’s even if you have everything else going for [...]

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Modern Proverbs for the Digital World

July 14, 2011

From Ben’s blog, Spam Comment, I am taking the idea of Modern Proverbs. To start, here is my favourite from his series of 5 modern proverbs, each gathered from comment spam left on blogs. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target Artificial intelligence is no match [...]

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Old Buildings are not Ours

June 22, 2011

I really like this quote but I don’t fully agree with it. People from the past can not live in the future, they can’t change with the times and understand how life evolves after they are gone. Not every old building can remain standing forever in the future. Some have to make way for progress. [...]

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