Quotes - Steve Goodyear (stevegoodyear) (Kingston, ON, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 82

#1

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#2

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#3

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#4

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#5

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#6

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#7

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#8

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#9

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#10

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

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#11

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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#12

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#13

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

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#14

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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#15

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: humor, writing

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#16

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: television, writing

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#17

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#18

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#19

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#20

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#21

“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
― Jerry Seinfeld

tags: books, funny

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#22

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#23

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

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#24

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing

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#25

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing

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#26

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#27

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

tags: writing

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#28

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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#29

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#30

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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