Karen Childress

Writer and Pastel Artist

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Words of Wisdom

writing quotes for inspiration

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.  ~Mark Twain

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood.  I'd type a little faster.  ~Isaac Asimov


I love being a writer.  What I can't stand is the paperwork.  ~Peter De Vries

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I gave away. - Clarence Darrow

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. - Bonnie Friedman

I wrote from a sense of need. I needed something to do. You can't just sleep all day long. - Snoopy

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling

The one who tells the stories rules the world. - Hopi proverb

There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.  ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
 

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

 

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  ~Sylvia Plath
 

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.  ~Mark Twain
 

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.  ~Anton Chekhov

 

Easy reading is damn hard writing.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

    

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