December 2009
125 posts
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you...”
– Martha Graham to Agnes de Mille
“Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You...”
– JUDITH BARRINGTON
Three Simple 2010 Resolutions for Writers →
Most of our promises are fleeting with no backing. Let us take this promise — “I promise to finish my novel” — as an example. If your novel is in the true development stage, where the author (you!) has written the title and possibly the first sentence of the epic tale, you many want to alter that resolution.
Here are three simple 2010 resolutions.
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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly
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“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
– Carol Burnett
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without...”
– ~Edward P. Morgan
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“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but...”
– Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be...”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– WILLIAM FAULKNER
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“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least...”
– GEORGE ORWELL
