Post by Moonlight on May 27, 2010 22:21:27 GMT -5
Sticky-ing this one simply because it'll be an interesting read for everyone once things get going. ^_^
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
~ Gaston Bachelard
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
~ Richard Bach
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~ John Steinbeck
When characters are really alive, before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action.
~ Luigi Pirandello
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
~ Christopher Morley
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams.
~ Danzae Pace
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~ Unknown
A feller up the creek says: A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether to say it or not
~ Unknown
'Tis better to keep your mouth closed and be suspected a fool, than open it and remove all doubt.
~ Mark Twain
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
~ Roger Miller
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
~ Confucius
Assume - It makes a mule out of both you and me.
~ Unknown
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
~ Chinese Proverb
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
~ Chinese proverb
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
~ Japanese Proverb
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
~ Texan Proverb
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
~ German Proverb
Set a thief to catch a thief.
~ English Proverb
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
~ English Proverb
Two shorten the road.
~ Irish Proverb
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Greek proverb
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
~ Swedish Proverb
Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.
~ Proverb of Unknown Origin.
A forest is in an acorn.
~ Proverb of Unknown Origin
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
~ Gaston Bachelard
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
~ Richard Bach
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~ John Steinbeck
When characters are really alive, before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action.
~ Luigi Pirandello
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
~ Christopher Morley
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams.
~ Danzae Pace
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~ Unknown
A feller up the creek says: A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether to say it or not
~ Unknown
'Tis better to keep your mouth closed and be suspected a fool, than open it and remove all doubt.
~ Mark Twain
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
~ Roger Miller
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
~ Confucius
Assume - It makes a mule out of both you and me.
~ Unknown
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
~ Chinese Proverb
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
~ Chinese proverb
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
~ Japanese Proverb
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
~ Texan Proverb
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
~ German Proverb
Set a thief to catch a thief.
~ English Proverb
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
~ English Proverb
Two shorten the road.
~ Irish Proverb
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Greek proverb
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
~ Swedish Proverb
Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.
~ Proverb of Unknown Origin.
A forest is in an acorn.
~ Proverb of Unknown Origin
