Some Writing Quotes (I)

Taken from elsewhere. 

Thanks for Google. :)

Do not put statements in the negative form.

And don't start sentences with a conjunction.

If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a

great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.

De-accession euphemisms.

If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.

Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"

Writing is easy:  All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.  ~Gene Fowler

Every writer I know has trouble writing.  ~Joseph Heller

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.  ~Terri Guillemets

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.

~Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

I love writing.  I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.  ~James Michener

Writing, I think, is not apart from living.  Writing is a kind of double living.  The writer experiences everything twice.  Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.  ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

Ink surrounds me all the time

On my bed sheets, recorded in rhyme

Quills 'ever scribbling in my head

Sometimes damnit I forget what they said.

Ink has settled into my fingerprints

But to keep the words I fear to rinse...

~Terri Guillemets

Write your first draft with your heart.  Re-write with your head.  ~From the movie Finding Forrester

It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do.  ~Uniek Swain

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.  ~Jean Luc Godard

I never think at all when i write

nobody can do two things at the same time

and do them both well

~Don Marquis, Archy's Life of Mehitabel, 1933

Books want to be born: I never make them.  They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.  ~Samuel Butler

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector.  This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.  ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.  ~Toni Morrison

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.  ~Karl Kraus

Love writing! Love Pocky! Love Hippo!

:D

Hippo :3

R.A. 

Jogja, 5 November 2011