Welcome to another installment of Ten Quote Tuesday! If your creative juices have trouble flowing today, then read these quotes to nudge awake the sleeping muse.
If there is a particular quote you enjoyed, let us all know with your comments below.
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Quotes
“The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.” -Billy Wilder
“A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.” -Lorrie Moore
“You never know what you will learn ’til you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.” -Anita Brookner
“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.” -Kahlil Gibran
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.” -Gloria Naylor
“I type in one place, but I write all over the house.” -Toni Morrison
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. ” -Orson Welles
“Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.” -Stephen Fry
“Human life is fiction’s only theme.” -Eudora Welty
“While many things are too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” -Thomas Hardy
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The Gloria Naylor quote is particularly interesting. I wonder how true it is – particularly for things I’ve written. Hum…
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I’m with Orson on this one … sooner or later, everyone dies. 🙂
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Reblogged this on quirkywritingcorner and commented:
I had a hard time picking a favorite one out of this group; they were all so good.
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“You never know what you will learn ’til you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.” -Anita Brookner
This has been so true for me, writing a novel based on family history. I thought I knew the story before I started writing, but I hadn’t bargained on the fact I would be plunged into such sadness until the tears came.
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Love Stephen Fry’s quote.
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Lorrie Moore hit it on the head!
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Anita Brookner – revelations can sometimes appear on the paper, and you’re not certain where they came from.
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