1.It is necessary to write, if
the days are not to slip emptily by. How
else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the
mood is gone; life itself is gone. That
is where the writer scores over his fellows:
he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. –Vita
Sackville-West
2.Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the
university stifles writers. My opinion
is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good
teacher. –Flannery O’Connor
3.Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out
after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will none the less get
something that looks remarkably like it.
–Jack London
4.A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, 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
5.The road to hell is paved with adverbs. –Stephen
King
6.Words are but the vague shadows of the
volumes we mean. Little audible links,
they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. –Theodore
Dreiser
7.True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not
Chance,
As those move easiest who have learn’d to
dance. –Alexander Pope
8.One must be drenched in words, literally
soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern
at the right moment. –Hart Crane
9.The most essential gift for a good writer is
a built-in, shockproof shit detector.
This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. –Ernest
Hemingway
10.Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a
man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it
is untied, the whole man is visible. –Leo Tolstoy
