Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts… – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com [And a resounding INFJ-hallel
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. – Karl Kraus
We write to remember our nows later. – Terri Guillemets
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf
Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. – Anatole France
An author, behind his words, is naked. – Terri Guillemets
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron
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
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. – Washington Irving
Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. – From the movie Finding Forrester
Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. – Terri Guillemets
It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation. – Samuel Johnson, 1751
Writing is both mask and unveiling. – E.B. White
As children, some of us liked magic and fantasy, more than reality. So, we became writers. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
I have succeeded in arresting some casual wing of thought as it flew, some transient wave of emotion as it subsided… – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883
