If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
– Orson Welles
Category Archives: Quotable
Quotable 150
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
– Maya Angelou
Quotable 149
You can fix anything but a blank page.
– Nora Roberts
Quotable 148
Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being.
– David Foster Wallace
Quotable 147
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
– Augusten Burroughs
Quotable 146
All writing is a journey. You take the reader by the hand and you lead him somewhere. And you want to make sure he never lets go of your hand.
– Roger Ebert
Quotable 145
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
– Ernest Hemingway
Quotable 144
Writing is like sex; everyone thinks they can do it, but most people aren’t willing to devote the time and effort to be really amazing at it.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
Quotable 143
Decent grammar and punctuation isn’t that hard to master so if you can’t be bothered agents, publishers and other writers will be inclined to think you don’t care very much about writing after all.
– Alexia Casale
Quotable 142
Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling.
– Po Bronson