Saturday, May 25, 2013

Quote of the Day Archives

 

   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 15, 2013

When you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

 

King, Stephen (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 14, 2013

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 13, 2013

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

 

King, Stephen Skeleton Crew (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 12, 2013

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

 

O'Connor, Flannery (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 11, 2013

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

 

Gaiman, Neil (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 10, 2013

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them.

 

Twain, Mark (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 09, 2013

Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

 

Twain, Mark (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 08, 2013

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

 

Vonnegut, Kurt A Man Without a Country (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Henry Lara   Publish Date: May 07, 2013

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

 

Wilde, Oscar (0)


   Compiled by OFW editor: Katrina Monroe   Publish Date: May 06, 2013


Wit is educated insolence.

 

, Aristotle (0)


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