Aphelion

My favorites are all from Oscar Wilde:<br><br>Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.<br><br>Work is the curse of the drinking classes.<br><br>Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.<br><br>The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.<br><br><br>Nate

This one isn't famous (well, I hadn't heard it before today), but it's a good one:<br><br>If my doctor told me I only had six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.<br> <br>Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) <br>Writer and scientist <br><br><br>

This one isn't famous (well, I hadn't heard it before today), but it's a good one:

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

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Writer and scientist

<br><br>Of course, the Good Doctor could probably write a story or an article in six minutes. (A whole book would be a bit of a stretch, even for him.)<br><br>

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. <br><br>Robert Heinlein<br>(See<br>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/autho ... tml<br>for a bunch more, or Google "Heinlein quote" for many other resources.)

I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble -- you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.<br> <br>Source: Robert Heinlein in Letter to Blassingame, 16 May 1947 -- quoted in Grumbles <br>(from<br>http://www.quotableheinlein.com/html/home.html<br>-- one of those other resources)

"I'd spank you, but I have writing to do."

                                     ---------davjonz

Every single time I see it, it has more and more richness, depth, meaning and visuals.

Yeah, the visuals...

Kate

<br>Hmm. Does Kate find the, er, visuals for that one particularly evocative because today is Valentine's Day?<br><br>Robert M.

  My novel was first published as an Ebook because it was too short by 'industry standards' (even though it's about the same length as The Great Gatsby.) Now, it's moved into paperback and has been ISBN'd.
All is wthout changing a word I didn't want to

<br>Congratulations! Good for you!<br><br>I'm very curious about this, and hope I can grill you about your success, both for my myself and the many other authors here sitting on novel manuscripts. Is your ebook publisher putting it out, or did you have to find a print publisher on your own? Is it print on demand, or a conventional run? Was this something that was based on amount of sales? How did this process work?<br><br>Nate

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."<br>--Neil Gaiman<br>

This is not a famous quote, but it resonates with me as I struggle to balance my creative vision with the needs of the publishing industry gatekeepers:

"F#ck you, I won't do what you tell me. Motherf#cker."

Zack de la Rocha, Rage against the Machine

Hmm. This probably speaks to why I haven't been able to place my novel yet...

Dan E.

<br><br>"If it can be conceived as music, it can be executed as music, and presented to an audience in such a way that they will perceive it as music: "Look at this. Ever seen one of these before? I built this for you. What do you mean, 'What the fuck is it?' It's a goddam ETUDE, asshole.""<br>--Frank Zappa<br><br>

Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around.

-- Stephen King

<br><br>"But life is a gift. It's not owed; it's given. Talents are gifts. Strength and wit and even beauty are gifts, with no price tag. And I wonder how it would be if ours were a culture of giving, rather than owing: if we were brought up to believe that we are all immensely rich in ourselves, and that the way to make the best of our riches is to give them to the world, as the world gives to us. Give our time and our energy to help others, as we are given the means to live. Give of our talent to make the world even more beautiful, as others make it more beautiful for us. Give our lives, not because we owe them, but because we have them."<br>--Zander Nyrond

"For the record: I did not experiment with drugs in the 1960s. Jonas Salk experimented with drugs in the 1960s. We were just getting fucked up."
--Mike Peterson

The preceding incantation came from the same source as the mantra,

OWA TAJER KAYAM (sometimes spelled OWA TAJER KIYAM).

(Quoted by a stuntman (now deceased) who base-jumped from the CN Tower. And no, that wasn't the stunt that killed him.)

RM