Janet Fitch’s Ten Rules for Writers.
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#3: Kill the Cliché!
Posted in Writing on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ideas Are Easy
Posted in Writing on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that’s only the first step. Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. Sue Grafton
Two Great Minds Think Alike
Posted in Imagination, Thinking, Writing on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Samuel Johnson on Writing
Posted in Books and reading, Writing on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson
Flannery on Writers and the University
Posted in Flannery O'Connor, Writing, tagged Flannery O'Connor, university, Writing on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O’Connor
On Careless Writing
Posted in Writing, tagged Schopenhauer, Writing on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. Arthur Schopenhauer
