“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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Tag Archives: Quotes
Two Jean Toomer Quotes
“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”-Jean Toomer
“We do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”-Jean Toomer
Robert Louis Stevenson on Language
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“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”-Robert Louis Stevenson
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“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
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