Jack El-Hai: writing wisdom and tips @WriterMDs
Jack El-Hai posts writing wisdom and tips. [email protected] el-hai.com United States Joined October 2021-
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"When I say 'work' I only mean #writing. Everything else is just odd jobs." - Margaret Laurence, born 100 years ago on today's date
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#Writing: "Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works." – Virginia Woolf
#Writing: "It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself." – The Bible (Authorized Version, 1611): II Maccabees (Apocrypha) ch. 2, v. 32
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle #writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." – Flannery O'Connor
#Writing: "What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?" – Rollo May
#Writing: "Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can." – Jane Austen
#Writing: "What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up." - Jean-Henri Fabre
#Writing: "It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view." – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
#Writing: "Alas, I have no reminiscences worthy to be recorded!" – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo
#Writing: "How much easier it would be if we were allowed to acknowledge that we are afraid." – Christa Wolf
#Writing: "I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen." – Louisa May Alcott
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"Bullet hole scar between eyes." Did the Walla Walla County Sheriff's Department get its man? Today's historic #wantedposter from Damn History, my free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
#Writing: "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coué, who died 100 years ago on today's date
#Writing: "Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in." – Katherine Mansfield
#Writing: "Everybody's reviewing the same five books." – Laurie Herzel
#Writing: "I have this accent that when people hear it, they think 'Harvard snob,' and turn away." – George Plimpton
#Writing: "Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches." – Chinua Achebe
"I am #writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire." - Ingeborg Bachmann, born 100 years ago on today's date
#Writing: "Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence." – Minor White, who died 50 years ago on today's date
#Writing: "A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind." - John Neal
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