December 2009
30 posts
“I am not a music critic. Nor historian, nor archivist. I cannot tell you where...”
– Jon Stewart at The Kennedy Center Honors
“‘In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive,...”
– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
“I’m like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to...”
– Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit...”
– Anna Katharine Green
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born...”
– Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round...”
– Apple Computer Inc.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can...”
– John Green
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
– Timothy Leary
Eight Rules for Writing Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. Now...
“Where there’s pain, there’s still feeling, and where there’s feeling, there’s...”
– Nicholas Evans in The Horse Whisperer
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
