“Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.”
~Orson Scott Card
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Quote of the Week~March 22nd, 2013~www.BelindaWitzenhausen.com
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.”
~ Neil Gaiman
Quote of the Week~March 15th, 2013~www.BelindaWitzenhausen.com
“There’s an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.”
~ David McCullough
Quote of the Week~March 8th, 2013~www.BelindaWitzenhausen.com
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things about all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
~Stephen King
Quote of the Week~March 1st, 2013~www.BelindaWitzenhausen.com
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?”
~ Annie Dillard
Quote of the Week~ February 22nd, 2013~www.BelindaWitzenhausen.com
“The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.”
~Raymond Chandler
Quote of the Week~ February 15th, 2013~www.BelindaWitzenhausen.com
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”
~Ray Bradbury
Quote of the Week~ February 8th, 2013~www.BelindaWitzenhausen.com
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.”
~ Neil Gaiman
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