Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
— E.L. Doctorow
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Who's making so much noise in the bathroom?
Splashing, sloshing, bubbles, soap, toys, everywhere!
Look out! Mother is coming! Who's taking a bath?
"Who's Taking a Bath?" ~a picture book by Alice Berger
http://aliceberger.blogspot.com
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Oct 29, 2007 - 07 34
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
— Dale Carnegie
7,259 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2007 - 09 04
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
-C.S. Lewis
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Oct 29, 2007 - 11 53
"Writing is the only socially acceptable form of mental disorder."
-Robert A Heinlein
Go ahead, be crazy! :3
50,245 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 07 11
I have two sayings:
Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all. (this was in my cursive book in 4th grade.)
Conform and be dull. -- J Frank Dobie
50,010 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 10 20
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough --- that we should try again.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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Oct 31, 2007 - 11 55
Anything not worth doing, is worth doing poorly — Anonymous
;-P
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Oct 31, 2007 - 13 07
I knew Tresa was going to beat me to a Heinlein quote, I'm just happy she missed two of my favorites!
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Although that's not very inspirational... hrmmm
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
-Robert A. Heinlein
From what I'm told that accurately describes November for a lot of people ;)
50,010 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2007 - 10 59
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
50,010 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 08 43
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
— Charles Du Bos
50,010 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 08 43
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
— Washington Allston
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Nov 8, 2007 - 19 54
Things may be improbable or unimaginable, but never impossible - Anonymous
Keep up the good writing guys!
9,019 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 11 24
"Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers I'd be a politician." (Eugene Ionesco)
"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you." (Henry Rollins)
"Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that it sustains this kind of life? Which does not, of course, mean that my life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, at such times it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write – which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity." (Franz Kafka)
I think we all feel that last one, particularly over the course of NaNoWriMo.