Monday, November 28, 2005
CHILL OUT!
"Chill Out" was the most popular slang term of year 2004, meaning to relax, to calm down, to hang out. Ambrose Bierce, one of the great American journalists and short story writers of the 19th century, said that slang was the "grunt of the human hog. " But, S. I. Hayakawa in Language in Action,...
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Saturday, November 26, 2005
WHO WAS AMERICA'S POET LAUREATE?
ROBERT FROST, often called America’s unofficial poet laureate, was one of the most popular poets in the country during his lifetime. "Less than a month before his assassination, President John F. Kennedy spoke at Amherst College, in Massachusetts, on October 27, 1963, to praise Robert Frost, who...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Norman Mailer
"It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway." Norman Mailer (or husband?)
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Sunday, November 20, 2005
Harry Potter
Harry Potter Interview with J.K. Rowling Q: Where, when, and how do you write? A: Any time, any place, and longhand! Q: What advice would you give to young writers today? A: I doubt a writer who has got what it takes will need me to tell them this, but --- persevere! Q: "... And how did you get your...
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Friday, November 18, 2005
Stephen King
If you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write. -Stephen King- How this author would have time to read, too, what with his prolific list of published works, is beyond me. But, apparently, it can be done. Sometimes I strongly suspect that time is, indeed, relative. That some people...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
WORTH REPEATING
Often quoted but worth repeating: Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Cheryl Tiegs Was Not a Blogger!
She couldn't have been or else this highly-paid super model's reaction after receiving a $75,000 advance on a book would never have been: "The problem with writing is that there's not much money in it."
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Monday, November 14, 2005
I Am a Wild and Crazy Guy!
Steve Martin, American actor, writer,comedian, AS WRITER: I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
MARK TWAIN
MARK TWAIN, all-time great American author and wit had something original, singular, honest and, of course, amusing (and often more wise than humorous) to say about almost everything. George Bernard Shaw said about Twain: " Mark Twain and I are in very much the same position. We have to put things...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley, Humorist (1889 - 1945) US actor, author, & humorist
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