Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

This is a quote for all the skeptics who might question blogging...

...and whether or not bloggers are writers who will amount to anything as writers... "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."-Cicero(106BC-43BC) Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004

There are writers whose prose reads like poetry....

"Always be a poet, even in prose."-Charles Baudelaire One of my favorite children's authors writes novels that read like poetry---The author is Gary Paulsen, and for me the book that unfolds most like an incredibly rich poem is The Winter Room. Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 12, 2004

...time away from the world to be a writer...

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made." Gore Vidal Usually the phrase 'time away from the world' brings up images of a mountain retreat for days and weeks of solitude. Or an escape to a seaside... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 11, 2004

Quality vs. Quantity?

"...quantity produces quality. Only if you do a lot will you ever be any good. If you do very little, you'll never have quality of idea or quality of output. The excitement and creativity comes from a whole lot of doing--hoping you'll be suddenly struck by lightning."-Ray Bradbury Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 9, 2004

I don't think I will ever master the art of indifference....

...not that I really want too. I agree with Mr. Joyce that the artist/writer is interwoven with his or her work in a way that is intrinsic and inextricable. Yet I am not sure that the writer is inherently indifferent....And many of us believe that God is everything but indifferent! "The artist, like... Sign in to see full entry.

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