Quote of the Day Archives
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 16, 2013
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Welty, Eudora (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 15, 2013
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Cary, Joyce (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 14, 2013
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues—which takes years.
Haley, Alex (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 13, 2013
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
Williamson, Marianne (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 12, 2013
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
Wells, H.G. (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 11, 2013
Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.’
Mallet, Jef (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 10, 2013
I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.
DeVries, Peter (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 09, 2013
Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.
Flesch, Rudolf (0)
Compiled by OFW editor:
Kristina Kennedy
Publish Date: September 08, 2013
First you’re an unknown; then, you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Myers, Martin (0)
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