“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare.  For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors,… Continue reading →

“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson –

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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ”

– Mark Twain –

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“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air.  All I must do is find it, and copy it. ”

– Jules Renard –

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“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”

– Karl Kraus –

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“I love writing.  I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ”

– James Michener –

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

– Isaac Asimov –

Category: Health

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“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne –

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“Writing, I think, is not apart from living.  Writing is a kind of double living.  The writer experiences everything twice.  Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”

– Catherine Drinker Bowen –

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“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words make.”

– Truman Capote –

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