“Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words.” ~A. McIntyre, “After Virtue”
Quotation
Random but inspiring quotations
Quotation of the Day – May 29
“Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success—in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters, p.76
Quotation of the Day – May 15
“Good writers of prose must be part poet, always listening to what they write.” ~William Zinsser
Quotation of the Day – April 29
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was famous.”
~Robert Benchley
Quotation of the Day – April 25
“People say they can’t draw when they mean they can’t see, and that they can’t write when they mean they can’t think.”
~Aaron Haspel
Quotation of the Day – March 10
“In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established.” ~John Steinbeck
Quotation of the Day – March 6
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” ~Colette