Wednesday, April 8, 2009
This is a wonderful quote about persistence as the path to success...
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."-Isaac Asimov Keeping at...
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Confidence as a writer...
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all --that is genius."--Emerson In college I took classes that operated like creative writing groups. About 8 years ago, I was thrilled to be invited to join a local writer's group in this town. It...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
This does capture the feelings that can be associated with criticism...
...of one's work. But how can we learn without some critical feedback? "Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs."-John Osborne
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
...a little humor ...
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."-Albert Einstein
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
This is an amazing sentiment about change...
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."-C.S. Lewis
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