What is written about the right way of writing by writers. I think readers have a right to know what is right about writing and the right way of writing so that is serves as a rite of passage.:)
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1. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!” - Thoreau
2. “The first draft of everything is shit” - Hemingway
3. “Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” - E.B. White
4. “Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wresting a
lligators.” - Olin Miller
5. “It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.” - T.S. Eliot
6. “Writing isn’t hard - no harder than ditch-digging.” - Patrick Dennis
7. “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit detector.” - Hemingway
8. “Read over your compositions and, when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.” - Samuel Johnson
9. “If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.” - Gide.
10. “People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.” - Emerson
11. “The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.” - Richard harding David
12. “I shall live bad if I do not write, and I shall write bad if I do not live.” - Francoise Sagan
13. “An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted.” Charles Poore.
14. “If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.” - H.G. Wells
15. “The tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.” Faulkner
16. “A good writer is not per se a good book critic, no more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.” - Jum Bishop
17. “To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset maugham
18. “The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.” - Mencken
19. “I write fast because I have not the brains to write slow.” - Georges Simenon
20. “I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” -Hemingway
21. “He is a writer for the ages - the ages of four to eight” - Dorothy Parker
22. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” - Richard Bach
23. “To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” - Truman Capote
24. “Read, read, read. Read everything- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.” - William Faulkner
25. “I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.” Henry David Thoreau”
Well, now you know how to write well!!
VNs,
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
DEFT DEFINITIONS
A forward from ArunKP
DEFT DEFINITIONS:
Bore:
A person with nothing to say and says it
Flashlight:
A case in which to hold dead batteries
Ignorance:
When you don't know something and someone finds out
Secret:
Something you tell one person at a time
Yawn:
An honest opinion openly expressed
College:
Rest house for the restless
Meal time:
When youngsters sit down to continue eating
Nurse:
A person who wakes you up to give you a sleeping pill
Patience:
The ability to put up with people you would like to put down
Politician:
A man who sacrifices your life for his country
Perseverance:
A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success
Sweater:
A garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly
Happiness:
An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another
Genealogy:
An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to
trace his own
Logic:
The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the
limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding
Abstainer:
A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure
Absurdity:
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
Admiration:
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves
Egotist:
A person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me
Beauty:
The power by which a woman charms a lover an terrifies a husband
Consult:
To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon
DEFT DEFINITIONS:
Bore:
A person with nothing to say and says it
Flashlight:
A case in which to hold dead batteries
Ignorance:
When you don't know something and someone finds out
Secret:
Something you tell one person at a time
Yawn:
An honest opinion openly expressed
College:
Rest house for the restless
Meal time:
When youngsters sit down to continue eating
Nurse:
A person who wakes you up to give you a sleeping pill
Patience:
The ability to put up with people you would like to put down
Politician:
A man who sacrifices your life for his country
Perseverance:
A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success
Sweater:
A garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly
Happiness:
An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another
Genealogy:
An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to
trace his own
Logic:
The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the
limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding
Abstainer:
A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure
Absurdity:
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
Admiration:
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves
Egotist:
A person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me
Beauty:
The power by which a woman charms a lover an terrifies a husband
Consult:
To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon
Monday, September 7, 2009
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