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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