haha i was going around online looking at quotations and i found a site with some good ones about writing. read and enjoy:
**Thoughts about writing**
“I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.”
-P. G. Wodehouse
...after being asked about his writing technique
"The paperback is very interesting but it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop."
-Alfred Hitchcock
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
-Red Smith
“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”
-Raymond Chandler
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector.”
-Ernst Hemingway
“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
-Otto von Bismarck
“If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.”
-Kingsley Amis
“Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.”
-Robert Duval
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
-Joseph Heller
Twelfth Night!
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
-Woody Allen
this is kinda sad...i'm really obsessed with livejournal now...im the definition of an internet junky. oh well it beats out readin 1984...
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