Self-trust is the first secret of success.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tag: success
Quotable 301
Craft is what enables you to be successful when you’re not inspired.
– Brian Eno
Quotable 242
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
– Stephen King
Quotable 236
Work inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you’re interested, keep working. If you’re bored, keep working.
– Michael Crichton
Quotable 196
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind and hang in there.
– Mary McGrory
haiku 308
historic day
ate pizza
didn’t burn my mouth
Quotable 107
A successful story is a narrative that the reader reads all the way through to the end and enjoys.
– Bruce Holland Rogers
Quotable 91
There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas, of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence – an overwhelming determination to succeed.
– Sophy Burnham
Pen to Paper: The Long View
This is only a day late for Halloween. It’s the story of one of the most popular fictional monsters: Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The writer tells the story well and there’s not much for me to say, except this: Write as well as you can. Create the best characters you can. Because even though your contemporaries might think your work is a pain in the neck, later generations may really sink their teeth into it. Give them that chance.
Fiction: Number’s Up
Creston Fulmont Jr. smiled at his computer’s monitor. Wall Street was loving his layoff of one-third of Fulprise Corp.’s employees. The company’s stock would likely set a record by the end of the day.
He looked up and continued to smile at the long rows of gold-framed magazine covers that bore his face. A more introspective man would have been at least mildly curious about having his face on the cover of Seventeen, but Fulmont took it as his due.