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Quickly Quotable #33 – Quotes for Writers from Writers
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the...
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Quickly Quotable #34 – Agatha Christie
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. There is...
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Quickly Quotable #35 – Thanksgiving Quotes
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric...
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Paraprosdokian Phrases Revisited
From the mystical land of my email comes another installment of paraprosdokian phrases. I tried my best to find who said what for those historians out there. Enjoy! To see the original list, click...
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Quickly Quotable #36 – Julia Child
“The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight...
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Quickly Quotable #37 – Victor Hugo
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” “Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet...
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Quickly Quotable #38 – Charles Dickens
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. “ “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the...
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Quickly Quotable #39 – David Sedaris
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read...
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Quickly Quotable #40 – 2010 Review
Back in March of this year Sunday became quote day here at My Literary Quest. In the beginning it featured a single quote loosely related to writing. In July it switched to feature a single artist or...
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Quickly Quotable #41 – Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in...
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Quickly Quotable #42 – Carl Jung
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience...
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Quickly Quotable #43 – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” “Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” “Darkness...
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Quickly Quoteable #44 – Henry Ford
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”...
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Quickly Quotable #45 – Jane Austen
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” “Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a...
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Quickly Quotable #47 – Ansel Adams
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” “Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the...
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Quickly Quotable #48 John Steinbeck
“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.” “The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this...
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Quickly Quotable #50 – Dr. Seuss
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter...
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Quickly Quotable #51 – Jules Verne
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real”...
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Quickly Quotable #52 – H. G. Wells
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” “Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.” “No passion in the world is equal to the passion...
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Quickly Quotable #53 – Arthur Conan Doyle
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”...
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Quickly Quotable #54 – Beverly Cleary
“I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.” “One rainy Sunday when...
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Quickly Quotable #55 – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” “My idea is always to reach my...
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Quickly Quotable #56 – Easter Special
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls. ~Katherine Lee...
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Guest Post – Epigrams: From Comic Strips to Montaigne by Steven Belanger
For today’s Feature Friday we have a guest post from blogger, novelist, and all around good guy Steven Belanger. Be sure to check out his collection of blogs found at Steven Belanger: Writing it Down....
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Quickly Quoteable #57 – Jane Yolen
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” “And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we...
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Quickly Quotable #58 – Mitch Albom
Happy Mother’s Day to all who have ever loved a child! To see a special post of Mother’s Day quotes, go here. Today’s post stems from attending the graduation ceremonies of my dearest hubby held this...
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Quickly Quotable #59 – Sleep
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late....
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Quickly Quotable #60 – J. K. Rowling
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” “Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.” “Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a...
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Writerly Quote of the Day – Asimov
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers” – Isaac Asimov In Hamlet, Shakespeare said “brevity is the soul of wit.” Today, and quite possibly for the next unforeseen future, I will be...
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Writerly Quote – Holly Gerth
“Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little” – Holley Gerth When it comes to putting words on the page, finding the right ones that will engage the reader and make your story...
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