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Post by amie29 on Aug 20, 2009 19:19:33 GMT
“Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.” Clive Barker Wasn't this Gustave Flaubert? Funny my web page shows it as both of them saying it so wich one really did? good call... thinkexist.com/quotes/clive_barker/
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Post by steppedonwolf on Aug 25, 2009 18:57:19 GMT
"The problem with critics is that they don't eat popcorn."
Neil Mason - Melody Maker 1997
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Post by steppedonwolf on Sept 23, 2009 21:32:20 GMT
"Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip."
- Elmore Leonard: Ten Rules of Writing
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Post by steppedonwolf on Oct 10, 2009 23:30:07 GMT
"If I ever hear you swear without asterix sustitution, I'll arrest you for offensive and threatening language."
"Like I g*ve a shit," screamed Mr Punch.
DCI Jack Spratt in The Fourth Bear, by Jasper Fforde
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Post by steppedonwolf on Oct 10, 2009 23:38:12 GMT
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
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Post by steppedonwolf on Oct 10, 2009 23:39:00 GMT
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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Post by darrelljoyce on Dec 14, 2009 23:40:07 GMT
"Humour is anger with makeup on." - Stephen King (Danse Macabre, I think?)
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Post by steppedonwolf on Mar 20, 2010 15:42:19 GMT
"Clichés are the spanners and the screwdrivers in the toolbox of language."
Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards
Huzzah for cliches!
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 8, 2010 2:34:54 GMT
“Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.”
- Raymond Chandler
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 8, 2010 2:37:38 GMT
"There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit - I mean after drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odour of a beer shit like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you realise that you were really alive.”
- Charles Bukowski
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Post by ian on Apr 11, 2010 6:08:04 GMT
Come on Ade... Let's have a quote from YOU as an author!
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 11, 2010 11:26:55 GMT
Well, I was born on October 28th, the Feast Day of St Jude - who is the patron saint of lost causes. Guess that's why I like fighting against the odds, rooting for the underdog, etc. So..
"There's no such thing as a lost cause."
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 14, 2010 16:43:54 GMT
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. J. G. Ballard Cracking quote, Ian. Something to remember if we go down the self-publishing route.
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Post by ian on Apr 14, 2010 17:27:48 GMT
More like, any fool can write a novel but it takes someone with patience, stamina and imagination to turn it into a GOOD novel.
Doesn't quite roll off the tongue though.
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Post by williemeikle on May 8, 2010 14:47:08 GMT
— Fritz Leiber
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