This is a fun quote
in an age when many people never read the book, but rely on the movie.... "Never judge a book by its movie."-J.W. Eagan Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Blogit gives us a kind of freedom as writers...
...We can choose to write and essentially publish whatever we want to write.... "Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."-Sinclair Lewis...This quote leaves me likening adolescent rebellions with a pull I sometimes feel here at Blogit to write the most... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, June 14, 2004
This is a favorite quote, and one that catches a snapshot
of some of the mystery in writing. There's the technical part of it, but then there is something that adds exponentially to the power of the process of bringing your writing to life. "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, June 12, 2004
How many of us can say that 'writing' is a matter of life or death?
Or maybe it really is that way for all of us who are born writers. Even if we don't realize it, 'not writing' deprives us of breath and life. "I write for the same reason I breathe-because if I didn't, I would die."-Isaac Asimov Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 11, 2004
Plagiarism...
This quote makes me think of disciplining children. In way it is too lighthearted a response for such a serious problem. But in another way it highlights the low level of maturity in plagiarists. "A plagiarist should be made to copy the author 100 times."-Karl Kraus A plagiarist should be made to... Sign in to see full entry.