Posts tagged “writing”

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
Vita Sackville-West

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