Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Jun 21 2010
Are things really that bad and are writers a sad bunch?
Writers, just in case you are being rough on yourself this week, here are a few other people with some disparaging remarks of their own.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back in.
Oscar Wilde
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no-one knows what they are.
Somerset Maugham
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
Francoise Sagan
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.
Leo Rosten
I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.
Joyce Carol Oates
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Wilfrid Sheed
posted at: 20:03 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Writers, just in case you are being rough on yourself this week, here are a few other people with some disparaging remarks of their own.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back in.
Oscar Wilde
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no-one knows what they are.
Somerset Maugham
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
Francoise Sagan
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.
Leo Rosten
I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.
Joyce Carol Oates
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Wilfrid Sheed
posted at: 20:03 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
