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Please share what inspires you, has touched you or is in some way memorable for you. I'm very fond of quotes by writers that give me a peek inside their skulls, like this one. :)
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. - Doug Lawson
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. - Doug Lawson
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Permalink Reply by Kay Elizabeth on
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I second that, Sean! I feel like a wrung out old rag by the time Christmas Day comes sometimes. This year I'm simplifying and the difference is great. I'll enjoy this year. Have a great Christmas, Sean. :)
Sean Noonan said:
Now this I fully subscribe to. An excellent one. Over the festive period slow things down a little, quality not quantity.
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People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. - St. Augustine
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Permalink Reply by scribbler on
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. - Jules Renard
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud
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Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope... That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities. - Seamus Heaney
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. - Mortimer Adler
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Permalink Reply by Sean Noonan on
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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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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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I like it! I always say writing from the heart trumps everything else. :)
Sean Noonan said:
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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Cease those opportunities! This year is one we can all move forward in our literary careers.
scribbler said:We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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Permalink Reply by Betzy Crypt on
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"The silence of a stupid man is known as wisdom."
this one made me laugh. lol
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Permalink Reply by Callie Leah on
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." -Albert Einstein.
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