quotations

If you Survive Them

August 23, 2010

I was looking for something else and found these quotes by Brittany Murphy (actress, now deceased). Kind of ironic things for her to be remembered saying when she died so young. Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if [...]

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Quotes from Robin McKinley

August 14, 2010

I’ve read Robin McKinley‘s book Sunshine, it was the one I liked best. I know I’ve read others but Sunshine sticks in my mind a lot more. “Just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it’ll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving [...]

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Much Love, The Possibility Girl

July 30, 2010

Quoted from Andre’s A Beautiful Revolution blog I used to think you needed to see it, to believe it. But now I realize that to see it, you must first believe it. Everything is possible. Everything is possible. Take time to read. The illustrations and the short stories are full of possibilities.

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What is Your Writing Process?

July 29, 2010

Quoted from Whatever, in an interview with Kelley Armstrong (Canadian paranormal fiction writer). This is her reply when asked about her writing process and how it may have changed over the years she has been writing her books. After seventeen books and countless pieces of short fiction, my process still changes. I think now, though, [...]

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Dancing in the Rain

July 25, 2010

My friend, Amanda posted this on Facebook today. I don’t hear much from her since she moved out to western Canada (Alberta) but this was worth posting. Sounds like things are going well for her. Life isn’t about how you survived the storm…..it’s about how you danced in the rain! :>))

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Fact Checking your Work of Fiction

July 10, 2010

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people’s writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people’s fiction. Just don’t.  - Laurell K. Hamilton Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And [...]

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Roald Dahl: In a Different Place with Different People

July 8, 2010

I came across several Roald Dahl books among those we were taking to the second hand bookstore. They had been part of a pile of books at the bottom of a box of toys no one was bothering with for month. I saved them. I might even read them at some point. I don’t like [...]

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Keep Your Stick on the Ice

July 4, 2010

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky In honour of my nephew, Zack, who left his library book from French class here. Also in honour of French teachers in Ontario, my own having been Ms. Greensmith, I give to you a Wayne Gretzky quote because the French language book is [...]

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Have you Ever Found a Word that Said Everything?

July 3, 2010

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for”. — Georgia O’Keeffe Quote found on the Daily Art Fixx site. Do you watch your characters and the scene around them as you write or is it all just coming out as [...]

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Mental Squint

June 21, 2010

“When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint” – Lewis Carroll Another way of saying “show don’t tell” but I think it goes further than that. It is easy enough [...]

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Great Science Fiction Quotations

June 16, 2010

Peter Grant has a page of Great Science Fiction Quotes in his blog. I can’t pick just one as a favourite. Here are some: “There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that [...]

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Red for Goal Reaching

June 14, 2010

“Red is passion to reach your goal.” – Adam, part of the Show Your Colours.ca for Smarties chocolates. A Canadian thing. My goal today is to clear some of the stuff off my desk. I don’t really need to write a to-do list, I keep mine all over the surface of my desk. It gets [...]

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Are you a Good Worker?

June 11, 2010

Some of my family love yard work and gardening and landscaping in general. I like to admire their work. I am not fond of manual labour, but I get pulled into it more often than I’d really like. It’s not that I don’t like getting my hands dirty, it is the type of dirt: bugs [...]

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The Greatest Mistake

June 10, 2010

There are all kinds of theories about how the Universe was created, everything from God(s) to the Big Bang Theory. I don’t think it will ever be settled on in my own lifetime. Though I would like to know. In the meantime… what if it was all just some crazy mistake? Some “oops, I missed” [...]

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Invention with the Senses

June 8, 2010

This quote comes from the Famous Canadian Women site: I have discovered that invention does not require a prerequisite of age gender, race or ability. It needs an eye for the obvious, an ear for the earnest and a nose for the now, a mouth for the moment and a touch of luck for the [...]

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