Posts tagged “writing”

It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
Barbara Kingsolver

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
André Gide

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
Mickey Spillane

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
George Santayana

“Fuck literature.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1924, in a letter to Ezra Pound