Writer and Writing Quotation of the Day
Writing Day
"Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day."
- Norman Mailer
When every day is a writing day, everyday is a good day.
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- Norman Mailer
When every day is a writing day, everyday is a good day.
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Screenplay to Movie
Screenplay is to movie what grin is to smile.
- S.R. Lundin
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- S.R. Lundin
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Live Present Tense
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit."
- Henry David Thoreau
Change season to present in the above quotation, and Thoreau gives excellent advice to writers. Live, breathe, drink, taste, and see: Be present in the present tense.
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- Henry David Thoreau
Change season to present in the above quotation, and Thoreau gives excellent advice to writers. Live, breathe, drink, taste, and see: Be present in the present tense.
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From Novel to Screen
Going from novel to screen requires a thousand decisions about what to cut and what to keep. Thankfully, the answer to one simple question helps every time: Does it (the scene) forward the story? Yes? Keep it. No? kill it. Not sure? Cut it. When you master the movement of story you reduce adapting to a problem of time. Unfortunately, no one has a solution for time.
- S.R. Lundin
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- S.R. Lundin
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Failure Lacks Endurance
Keep writing. Failure lacks endurance. - S.R. Lundin
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Guts of a Writer
"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential."
- Jessamyn West
Discipline, persistence, patience, endurance -- the guts of a writer.
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- Jessamyn West
Discipline, persistence, patience, endurance -- the guts of a writer.
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Einstein the Comedian
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
Humor is a well known marker of intelligence, and Einstein's humor was some of the best. Knowledge is finite? That's hilarious. After all, knowledge is the seed of imagination--limit one and limit the other.
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- Albert Einstein
Humor is a well known marker of intelligence, and Einstein's humor was some of the best. Knowledge is finite? That's hilarious. After all, knowledge is the seed of imagination--limit one and limit the other.
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Rushed Writing
Rushed writing is slow work.
- S.R. Lundin
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- S.R. Lundin
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Eternal when Internal
"Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing."
- Donald Hall
Endurance is eternal when internal, infernal when external.
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- Donald Hall
Endurance is eternal when internal, infernal when external.
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Excercise Imagination
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
- William Somerset Maugham
Like imagination, ambition weakens without exercise and, in agreement with experience, both are more active in the young than in the mature. There is your reason -- Exercise imagination now!.
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- William Somerset Maugham
Like imagination, ambition weakens without exercise and, in agreement with experience, both are more active in the young than in the mature. There is your reason -- Exercise imagination now!.
© 2010 Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved
