“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.” — Gore Vidal
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Quote For The Day 9-20-2021
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.” — Gustave Flaubert
Quote For The Day 9-19-2021
“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.” — R.L. Stine
Quote For The Day 9-18-2021
“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” — Victor Hugo
Quote For The Day 9-17-2021
“Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.” — Annie Dillard
Quote For The Day 9-16-2021
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.” — C. J. Cherryh
Quote For The Day 9-15-2021
“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.” — Meg Rosoff
Quote For The Day 9-14-2021
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” — Annie Proulx
Quote For The Day 9-13-2021
“…at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It’s only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands.”
― Scott F. Falkner
Quote For The Day 9-12-2021
“No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.”
― Isaac Babel
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