Writers' Musings
In my sophomore year of high school, my English teacher told us to keep a notebook.
Everytime we read something that made an impression or that we thought was good, we were to write it down in the notebook.
An avid reader, I filled page after page.
I wish I had that notebook today. So, I decided to start a new one.
Enjoy!
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"Reading
is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~ Sir Richard Steele
"Dear Editor: Why do you keep sending my stories back? You're supposed to print them and make me rich and famous.
What is it with you?" This letter to the editor
was written by that famous writer and philosopher Snoopy, while sitting atop his doghouse. How many homo sapien authors can
relate to this canine author's angst?
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there
is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
~ Walt Disney
A perfectly healthy sentence...is extremely
rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning
or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. ~ Henry David Thoreau
We all want to be accepted, but in the end it is the truly original that are remembered.
~ Mary Moquin
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Dear Editor: Why do you keep sending my stories back? You're supposed to print them and make
me rich and famous. What is it with you? ~ Snoopy, sitting atop his doghouse
When your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. ~ Jonathan
Winters
Never be ashamed of your subject, or of your passion for your subject.
Your "forbidden" passions are likely to be the fuel for your writing.... Your struggle with your buried self, or selves, yields
your art. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it
takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to pay to win. ~ Lori Perkin
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
~ Walt Disney
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the
whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Aristotle
Our
willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives,
the more they will be magnetized to join us. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley
When an old person dies, it's
like a library goes up in flames. ~ unknown
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you
may as well make it dance. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The taste of
defeat has a richness of experience all its own. ~ Bill Bradley, Politician
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. ~ Henry
Ford
