Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Getting started...

This is an apt way of describing and quandary of beginning a work of writing.... One of the main discomforts in writing a book is, that there are so many ways in which every thing, as it comes up, might be told, and you can't tell which is the best. You believe there must be a best way; but you... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Commitment and Writing...

This makes me think of the very old cliche--- Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This quote is serious and elegant, so I am surprised at the corny associations I keep having, such as 'you have to start with one egg to get a dozen.' I really think I should move ahead and share the quote I am... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Wonderful advice for the writer...

...and definitely worth considering as words to live by--especially for writers. "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

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 leave me likening adolescent rebellions with a pull I sometimes feel here at Blogit to write the most... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Times are bad...

Strange how over the centuries, again and again mankind has seen the world as deteriorating and falling apart in his or her generation. This quote could have been written in 2007, especially with the explosion of blogging and bloggers in what an radio commentator referred to this morning as the... Sign in to see full entry.

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