"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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Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Rushed Writing
Rushed writing is slow work.
- S.R. Lundin
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- S.R. Lundin
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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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- Donald Hall
Endurance is eternal when internal, infernal when external.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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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- 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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Monday, January 25, 2010
Writing is Work
Writing is work without pay and a boss.
- S.R. Lundin
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Grammar Rejected
If text and texted, but flex and not flexted, then grammar rejected.
- S.R. Lundin
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- S.R. Lundin
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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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- 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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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Legless
A critic is a legless man who teaches running."
- Anonymous
Worse is the crowd he runs with.
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- Anonymous
Worse is the crowd he runs with.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
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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- Mark Twain
Just follow the money. The public criticizes with a purse.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Therefore I Write
"I think, therefore I am."
- René Descartes
I've written, therefore I write.
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- René Descartes
I've written, therefore I write.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
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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- 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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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
One Quote a Day
One quote a day keeps writing in play.
- S.R. Lundin
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- S.R. Lundin
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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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Monday, January 11, 2010
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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- S.R. Lundin
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Friday, January 8, 2010
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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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antagonism feels and acts with reason, and therefore is always wrong.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
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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- S.R. Lundin
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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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- S.R. Lundin
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Passion Creates
Passion creates the writer. - S.R. Lundin
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Monday, January 4, 2010
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.
Friday, January 1, 2010
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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- S.R. Lundin
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