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Post by Endovia on Jan 1, 2012 15:09:08 GMT -6
THE ECHO QUOTE CATALOGUE 2012 JANUARY 2012"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931FEBRUARY 2012"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
Anton ChekhovMARCH 2012"Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder."
Raymond ChandlerAPRIL 2012"The poetry in fiction is found in the choices we make."
Jason HelmMAY 2012"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
Ernest HemingwayJUNE 2012"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
Mark TwainJULY 2012"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
Lloyd AlexanderAUGUST 2012"Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals."
Don DelilloSEPTEMBER 2012"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight."
Ralph Waldo EmersonOCTOBER 2012"[Writing] is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started."
Anne LamottNOVEMBER 2012"If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last."
Anton ChekhovDECEMBER 2012"Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it..."
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Post by sapphire on Jan 2, 2013 1:00:33 GMT -6
THE ECHO QUOTE CATALOGUE 2013 JANUARY 2013"If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical."
Terry BrooksFEBRUARY 2013"I invent another world, without voice, without judgment. I dance for hours. A trance followed by silence. I learn to write."
Nina BouraouiMARCH 2013"The rags, the refuse... Not to make an inventory of these things, but to allow them, in the only possible way, to fulfill their existence."
Walter BenjaminAPRIL 2013"The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets."
Diane DuaneMAY 2013"If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."
Peter HandkeJUNE 2013"A story well told gives you the very thing you cannot get from life: meaningful emotional experience. In life experiences become meaningful with reflection in time. In art, they are meaningful now, at the instant they happen."
Robert McKeeJULY 2013"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
Kurt VonnegutAUGUST 2013"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."
Ezra PoundSEPTEMBER 2013"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
Hannah ArendtOCTOBER 2013"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
Natalie GoldbergNOVEMBER 2013"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Thomas JeffersonDECEMBER 2013"The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is."
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Post by sapphire on Jan 1, 2014 14:13:33 GMT -6
THE ECHO QUOTE CATALOGUE 2014 JANUARY 2014"Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s."
Stephen KingFEBRUARY 2014"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."
J.K. RowlingMARCH 2014"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it."
Anaïs NinAPRIL 2014"This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard."
Neil GaimanMAY 2014"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. DoctorowJUNE 2014"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya AngelouJULY 2014"Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created—nothing."
F. Scott FitzgeraldAUGUST 2014"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
Robert FrostSEPTEMBER 2014"A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper."
Ursula K. Le GuinOCTOBER 2014"When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge."
Albert EinsteinNOVEMBER 2014"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words."
William H. GassDECEMBER 2014"A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us."
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Post by sapphire on Jan 1, 2015 14:59:17 GMT -6
THE ECHO QUOTE CATALOGUE 2015 JANUARY 2015"A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God."
Sidney SheldonFEBRUARY 2015"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."
Joss WhedonMARCH 2015"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
Natalie GoldbergAPRIL 2015"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
Vladimir NabokovMAY 2015"It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one."
Terry PratchettJUNE 2015"Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart."
Linda YezakJULY 2015"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
E. L. DoctorowAUGUST 2015"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
J.K. RowlingSEPTEMBER 2015"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."
Philip PullmanOCTOBER 2015"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration."
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Post by Endovia on Apr 5, 2016 11:43:12 GMT -6
THE ECHO QUOTE CATALOGUE 2016 APRIL 2016"Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well."
Margaret AtwoodMAY 2016"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
Ray Bradbury JULY 2016“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Stephen KingAUGUST 2016“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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