"The point I have been patiently trying to make," Godwin
said impatiently, "is that you expect far too much of a
first sentence.  Think of it as analogous to a good country
breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing
to the imagination.  Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives,
just give us a plain subject and perhaps a wholesome,
nonfattening adverb or two."

                          -Godwin to Danny Deck
                              Some Can Whistle

Quotes from January: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2678949

"Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone."

John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919
Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803–1882)
*Each and All

 Yeah!*

In my humdrum life,
the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil.
It's hardly so epic.
Most days, my real battle
is doing good versus doing nothing.

~ Deirdre Sullivan (in This I Believe)

"I don't do anything about maintaining quality, I just try to tell a story in such a way as to interest myself. I leave questions of quality to others."
– Donald E. Westlake

"Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts."--Virgil (The Aeneid) 

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself." 

—  Alan Alda

      “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-Harriet Tubman

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious"--Albert Einstein (my hero)

     Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin;
     it should make you jump up and do something.

                     -E. L. Simpson

"A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind."

• Ellen Gilchrist

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."  ~E.L. Doctorow 

"Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences." --Anne McCaffrey

'Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.'--**Ernest Hemingway

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The dragon Riders of Pern series!  My first fantasy reading and Anne McCaffrey had me hooked.  I even purchased the cultural guide to the people of Pern!  Ah, the memories, thank you..

"To be great, art has to point somewhere."

• Anne Lamott

"We must be the change we wish to see."--*** ***M.K. Gandhi 

Advances are made by those with at least a touch
of irrational confidence in what they can do.

~ Joan L. Curcio

"Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you. "  Anonymous

"Art must take reality by surprise."

• Francoise Sagan

"If, facing the paper, your thought is 'I am an artist.', you have no clue as to what to do. If the concepts of your function are, 'I am a shape maker, an entertainer, an expressive symbol collector' ... then you have an explicit road map."--Edgar Whitney

Even if you do learn to speak correct English,
       whom are you going to speak it to?

                          -Clarence Darrow

"The kind of imagination I use in writing, when I try to lose control of consciousness, works very much like dreams."

• Amy Tan

"Like all the arts, creative writing slows us down, requires us to look closer, deeper, longer, even as it quickens our pulse."

• Bonnie Goldberg

"Sometimes hanging in there is all it takes to succeed in life as well as in writing.
Failure is part of the process, but it doesn't have to be the final destination."

• Bestselling Author Sabrina Jeffries

Writers tell lies for a living.
But we try to layer in enough truth
that you believe everything we tell you.

~ Christina York

Attached Link: The Wrtten Word

"You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating."

• Barbara Sher

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."  
--Robert Benchley 

"There are many reasons why novelists write -- but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world." --John Fowles