I'd like to thank Kate Hawkes for sharing these quotes with me. Food for thought.
"Is it constantly on my mind when i'm going clickety-clack on the machine that this is somehow going to enlarge the scope of human comprehension? I would have to say no, that's not what I'm thinking about. I'm trying to get the line done.'
'The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.'
'It's no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.'
'No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.'
Cool quotes! Here's a few from my personal quotation collection:
ReplyDelete"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."
-- Kingsley Amis
"There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out."
--H.L. Mencken
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
--Malcolm Cowley
"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
--Colette
I wrote a script for a guy, and he said he liked it but he thought that I needed to rewrite it. I said, "F*** that, I'll just make a copy."
ReplyDelete--Mitch Hedberg
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain