A story is not a vignette…
“Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.”
– Chuck Wendig
The Secret of Life
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
Recipe for living…
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung.
Write about what you care about…
“The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you’ll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.”
– Jerry Spinelli
Books and libraries…
“It’s a quiet sort of heroism, the making and keeping of books. You don’t get medals for sitting in the library each day, scratching away, writing it all down. Still less for dusting the shelves. But it is what civilisation is made of: the collective memory, passed on, passed down.”
The Morville Hours, Katherine Swift
Writing quote
“If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.”
– Barbara Greene
Quote by Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~ Jane Austen
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw.
Book quote
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
E.B. White
Quote about bookshelves
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
– Anna Quindlen (The Times, 1991)
