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Writers’ Quotes on Writing – Dozen Number Three
By Deb
Today’s writers’ quotes continue a 7-part series of quotations from famous writers — some dating back to antiquity. Who knew? Be sure to Tweet, Digg and Stumble this link (http://www.debgallardo.com/virtuoso/1059/writers-quotes-dozen-number-three/) and check back tomorrow for another set of quotes that will inspire you, tickle your funny bone or otherwise entertain you.
The most important thing is insight, that is to be–curious–to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not. ~ William Faulkner
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can’t get a good story out of it. ~ Lawrence Watt-Evans
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can’t screw it up. ~ Raymond Feist
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. ~ Gustave Flaubert
Observe, don’t imitate. ~ John M. Ford
The historian records, but the novelist creates. ~ E. M. Forster
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. ~ Anatole France
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. ~ James Frey
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of a subject – of endless trying to dig out of the essential truth, the essential justice. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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