Einstein the Comedian

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
    - Albert Einstein

Humor is a well known marker of intelligence, and Einstein's humor was some of the best. Knowledge is finite? That's hilarious. After all, knowledge is the seed of imagination--limit one and limit the other.


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Rushed Writing

Rushed writing is slow work.
                       - S.R. Lundin


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Eternal when Internal

"Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing."
   - Donald Hall

Endurance is eternal when internal, infernal when external.


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Exercise Imagination

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

               - William Somerset Maugham

Like imagination, ambition weakens without exercise and, in agreement with experience, both are more active in the young than in the mature. There is your reason -- Exercise imagination now!


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Writing is Work

Writing is work without pay and a boss.
                               - S.R. Lundin

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Grammar Rejected

If text and texted, but flex and not flexted, then grammar rejected.
        - S.R. Lundin


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Stop writing, start dying? Maybe, but it smacks of beginner's belief. So what really happens when a writer quits writing? May you never know.

                   - S.R. Lundin


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Freedom

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

- Robert Frost

I played tennis without a net in Carpentaria, California. It was fun for about two minutes, but then it became a big waste of time. The challenge was to remain interested -- to keep at an activity that required no skill, lacked reward, and offered little more than pseudo exercise. Robert Frost compared writing free verse with playing tennis without a net, but the similarity is limited to a lack of confinement, not enjoyment, improvement, or time well spent.


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Legless

A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

       - Anonymous

Worse is the crowd he runs with.


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The Public Purse

"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

- Mark Twain

Just follow the money. The public criticizes with a purse.


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Therefore I Write

"I think, therefore I am."

         - René Descartes

I've written, therefore I write.



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Respectable Explanation

"The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

               - John Steinbeck

When money is your motive for writing fiction, lie and say that it's not. It's a respectable explanation for being so broke.


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One Quote a Day

One quote a day keeps writing in play.
- S.R. Lundin


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Ending Again

"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
                        - Longfellow

Greatest of all is ending again, and again, and again...


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Write, Lead, and Follow

Write so men might read; lead so they might follow; follow so they will write.

                    - S.R. Lundin


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Antagonism Acts with Reason

"Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antagonism feels and acts with reason, and therefore is always wrong.



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Life Side of Hell

Writing without passion is torture on the life-side of hell. If it's your job, then it's only hell on earth.
                - S.R. Lundin

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Window to the Author

The story is a window to its author, like his shoes are a window to his wallet.

                  - S.R. Lundin



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Passion Creates

Passion creates the writer.   - S.R. Lundin



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A Writer Tries

"A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself."

- Charles Dickens

Writers expect to be rejected -- if not the fault of their writing, it's the fault of their trying to do what others will not.

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Resolve to Write

New year, new story: Write every day. By this time next year, you will either be filled with the passion or emptied of the dream.

- S.R. Lundin



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