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  • When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Writing Quotes , Life Is Good Quotes
  • Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A. E. Hotchner Quotes , Flower Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Al-Ghazali Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes