“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”-Stephen King
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“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”-Edgar Allan Poe
What are your thoughts, fellow short story writers?
Is your philosophy at odds with Poe’s?
Let me know in the comments!
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“Don’t you ever mind,” she asked suddenly, “not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”-Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Three Quotes in Honor of Anne Sexton’s Birthday
Poet Anne Sexton was born on 9 November 1928.
- “I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
- “Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
- “Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don’t live by them at all. That’s what writers are like…you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”-Henry Miller
Marianne Moore…
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“I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.”-Marianne Moore
Writers Writing: George Gissing
George Gissing Writing
“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”-George Gissing
Goodbye, Cocteau!
“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”-Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau, 1923. (Died 11 October 1963).
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Ted Hughes Quote
[Alternative Muses] Going and Coming Mashup: William Morris/Thomas Wolfe
La Belle Iseult by William Morris (died 3 October 1896). 1858.
“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”-Thomas Wolfe (born 3 October 1900), You Can’t Go Home Again
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