Archive for the 'Quotes' Category

Today’s quote: “Do, or do not. There is no try.” Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Fact: Many people would like to write a book. Fact: Few people actually start writing a book. Fact: Very few people actually finish writing a book. Fact: Of those that finish writing a book, very [...]

Today’s quote: “Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain Mark Twain has touched on the very essence of what it is to be human. Yes, we do all have a ‘dark side’ – that part of our nature that rarely, if ever, sees the light [...]

Today’s quote about writing: “All the things we achieve are things we have first imagined and then made happen.” David Malouf, Australian writer Imagination is a powerful, essential, elemental, almost organic tool of the writer. It is the driving force behind all writers, especially writers of fiction. Without our imagination our stories cannot take shape, [...]

Today’s quote: “I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” Ernest Hemingway. I guess countless writers would like to write as well as Hemingway. Many have tried, few have succeeded. In any endeavour this is an excellent maxim on which to base [...]

Today’s quote: “I would love to write a book, but unfortunately, I don’t have a pen.” (Unknown source – it came to me from a Facebook friend) We might laugh at a saying like this, but for some people, any simple excuse is enough to stop them from writing. Some common excuses are: I don’t [...]