Thursday, October 2, 2008

Oh, for Happy Accidents

clipped from www.fontayne.com

 "... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things." Anton Chekhov

 "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." Robert Benchley

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde

"A writer is working when he's staring out of the window." Burton Rascoe

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped." Lillian Helman

"Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better."

"The first draft of anything is sh*t." Ernest Hemingway


Donald M. Murray
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what
they are."
Somerset Maugham

Bernard Malamud
"…therein is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy
accident." H.L. Mencken

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