Saturday, April 18, 2009

Quotation Saturday


Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
~ HeatherArmstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006


Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
~ Jesse Stuart


If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)


Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
~John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)


Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. ~Katherine Paterson The Spying Heart, 1989

There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
~Min Kim, Better Blogging Brainstorming, SXSW 2006


A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
~Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"

I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
~Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996


There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
~W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)


We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
~Frank Tibolt

4 comments:

Raven said...

Joni,

I Always get a kick out of the quotations you post. lol. I was in Target the other day and bought a plaque that reads "I haven't been the same since that house fell on my sister." hehehe...I have no idea who to give it to. If I keep it, I imply I'm the good fairy. And that ain't no way true. If I give it to my sister, she'll probably buy me striped stockings next Christmas and a monkey.

I love those plaques.

Happy Sunday!

Raven

joni said...

The good witch was Glenda, and I love the Wizard of Oz!!
Just so you get a good gift this Christmas you can always send it to me. lol

I am a quote freak, I think because I find so much controversial issues in them. Sometimes enlightening. :-)

Thanks for visiting. And yes my poem is up! :-D

Joni (who is moving on Saturday!)

Raven said...

Been over to get my Sunday fix. I'm going to miss that when it's time for you to fly. I'll keep a light lit while you're gone.

It'll be over at WVU. You'll know it's me. Magoo will be sitting at the foot of the lamp post keeping watch.

Raven

joni said...

Well I thought about it...and I'm going to post a poem for you on Thursday or Friday so you can have your fix.:-)

And hopefully...:::fingerscrossed and a lot of prayer:::: I'll have some form of Internet by the following Sunday. :-D

So hang in there my raven eye...I know I sure am. :-D

Joni