Quotations

Hope Meets you Anywhere

June 21, 2011

No matter how far the distance you have traveled nor the failures that have gathered, hope would still meet you anywhere. ~ by Dodinsky It’s not hard to find inspirational quotes and poems and other small things to try to perk you up, give you some light at the end of the tunnel, etc. Some [...]

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Dead Men Tell No Tales

May 26, 2011

“Dead men tell no tales” – Hiriam Breakes From Deep Sea News: Hiriam Breakes was a Dutch pirate, the second son to the Councillor of the Island of Saba in the Netherlands Antilles. In his twenties, he stole the ship and cargo of his employers and renamed the vessel The Adventurer. Almost immediately he came [...]

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An Optimist Sees the Bright Side of Other People’s Troubles

May 21, 2011

We took Zack (my favourite nephew) out to dinner. His fortune said: “An optimist is always able to see the bright side of other people’s troubles.” Pretty clever for something that came out of a fortune cookie. How do you read this fortune cookie saying? It can be seen as optimists enjoy other people’s troubles. [...]

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Fear of Writing

May 17, 2011

“Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through—that is, the fear of not being heard.” – Betsy Lerner “Inspiration doesn’t descend like a lightning bolt from [...]

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Every Time you Open your Mouth

May 15, 2011

“For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let the people look into your mind.” Bruce Barton

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Keep the Roots

May 14, 2011

  “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a person’s growth without destroying their roots.” – This was on something my Mother brought back from her trip to Florida.

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This Bitter Language

May 13, 2011

This Bitter Language I know your streets, sweet city, I know the demons and angels that flock and roost in your boughs like birds. I know you, river, as if you flowed through my heart. I am your warrior daughter. There are letters made of your body as a fountain is made of water. There [...]

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Talking to Conceal

May 10, 2011

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche Think about this next time you’re writing some dialogue. Not just writing between the lines or leaving things out but what part of conversation hides things by using camouflage? Politicians use a lot of words to make it seem [...]

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Storms Pass

May 9, 2011

I think I posted this quote before, somewhere. But I like it, especially dancing in the rain. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

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Live Out Your Imagination

May 6, 2011

The following come from Quotes for Writers, collected by Amberdine “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” Stephen Covey “If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.” Carl Jung “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers [...]

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Quotes to Inspire Writers

April 20, 2011

For the A – Z Blogging Challenge… Q is for Quotes These are quotes from 70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge. The challenge ended but the blog is still up. The story is not in the plot but in the telling. – Ursula K. LeGuin It is never too late to be what you might [...]

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Stay on the Optimistic Side

April 18, 2011

Today for the A – Z Blogging Challenge… O is for Optimistic. When do we have a more optimistic day than those days we make big changes to our lives? I made this ASCII art illustration for my wedding, years ago. Things didn’t turn out as I had hoped at the time. But things are [...]

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Shirley Jackson Says…

April 12, 2011

“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.” — Shirley Jackson  “I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.” — Shirley Jackson Today for the [...]

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Agatha Christie was in my Email

March 22, 2011

I’m cleaning up in my inbox. Quite a big chore. I’ve had this Gmail account since the year Google began Gmail. There are thousands of emails in it. Some sorted and many unsorted. A lot of them have never been read. I found this in a post from an email list I once belonged to. [...]

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Alfred Says “Show don’t Tell”

March 13, 2011

Although this is geared to film makers, it works for writing too. Just think of it as the old thing about “show, don’t tell”. Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Dodinsky’s Writings

March 8, 2011

Humble Beginnings We can not deny that often a truth and a lie have the same humble beginnings, intended to keep someone from harm, but in the scheme of things both have the same intensity to reduce someone to tears. Too Late Even if you find your voice, sometimes it does not matter anymore, when [...]

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Don’t Pick Up Lost Poems from the Ground

February 28, 2011

Looking for Poetry Don’t write poems about what’s happening. Nothing is born or dies in poetry’s presence. Next to it, life is a static sun without warmth or light. Friendships, birthdays, personal matters don’t count. Don’t write poems with the body, that excellent, whole, and comfortable body objects to lyrical outpouring. Your anger, your grimace [...]

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