quotes

• November 29, 2013

  “If a writer were a free man…”

  “If a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button…
• October 21, 2013

  “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde
• October 15, 2013

  “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
• September 29, 2013

  “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
• September 25, 2013

  “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
• September 25, 2013

  “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
• September 22, 2013

  “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway
• September 21, 2013

  “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt