Category: Quotable

Quotable Thomas Berger

On By cherylmahoneyIn Quotable1 Comment

“Why do writers write?  Because it isn’t there.”

– Thomas Berger

Quotable Brenda Ueland

On By cherylmahoneyIn Quotable3 Comments

“Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first–at least for some part of every day of your life…No writing is a waste of time–no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

– Brenda Ueland, in her excellent book, If You Want to Write

Quotable Mark Twain

On By cherylmahoneyIn Quotable11 Comments

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

– Mark Twain

I wouldn’t say it’s true of EVERY classic…but definitely some! 😉

Quotable Neil Gaiman

On By cherylmahoneyIn Quotable4 Comments

“Things need not have happened to be true.  Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”

– Neil Gaiman

Thanks to Nymeth for putting this one on her blog, which is where I saw it!

Quotable Roald Dahl

On By cherylmahoneyIn Quotable7 Comments

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.  She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad.  She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling.  She traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”

– Matilda, Roald Dahl