June 2012
76 posts
2 tags
i am a short story writer. i don’t know how to write a novel. how do you write a novel. novels are long. they require so much detail. i think people are bored already. im bored already. whats the secret to a novel? how does one write a novel thats interesting? why am i so boring? i need enough material, enough to be said. i need to find audiences who like description, no romance, just the...
“Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.”
– Author Unknown
2 tags
“After dark you fear the most.
To face alone your private ghosts.”
– Paul Hertzog
“All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.”
– William Harvey
“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
– William Blake
“It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
– African Proverb
“Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the...”
– Nora Roberts
“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”
– Robert Greenleaf
“It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your...”
– Judith Martin
4 tags
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life...”
– Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
“The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.”
– William Safire
we need a graveyard for all our friends who lost their lives in our books.
“We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think...”
– Henry Sedgwick
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to...”
– Robert Frost
“The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane.”
– Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you...”
– H. L. Mencken
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to...”
– Robert Frost
“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”
– Wendell Johnson
2 tags
“Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Too much rest is rust.”
– Sir Walter Scott, The Betrothed
2 tags
8 tags
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,...”
– Aristotle
“All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien
“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking...”
– Herbert Rappaport
“They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them...”
– Andy Warhol 