mmhmmhgood15 ([info]mmhmmhgood15) wrote,
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it's funny 'cause it's true...

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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[info]runic_badger

August 11 2005, 22:10:12 UTC 6 years ago

I love these quotes. I also love a lot of the folks being quoted (Huzzah for Catch-22 and Otto von Bismarck!). Guffaw! Yeah anywho, i think being losery is part of what summer's all about, that and skin cancer at age 40 (Huzzah atomic sunburns).

[info]mmhmmhgood15

August 12 2005, 01:46:11 UTC 6 years ago

here is the sight that i got all those quotes from. they're very reassuring. http://koti.mbnet.fi/pasenka/quotes/q-writ.htm

[info]fishcabbage

August 13 2005, 15:58:52 UTC 6 years ago

I had to read 1984! And I love the door stopness. It.....makes me feel pretty worthless. But in a good way
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