Determination Writes the Novel

While research writes the paper and emotions write the poetry, determination writes the novel.

- S.R. Lundin


© 2009 Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Great Sentences

Many write great stories. Few write great sentences.

   - S.R. Lundin


© 2009 Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

The Best Writing

Writer's Reality: Your best writing is yet to come.
                - S.R. Lundin

© 2009 Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Architecture of Movies

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration."
- Ernest Hemingway

Screenplays are the architecture of movies.


© 2009 Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Know and Feel

"It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about."
- L. P. Hartley

Know what you feel, feel what you know, and write who you are.


© 2009 Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Sincere Plagiarism

"Observe, don't imitate."
- John M. Ford

Imitation is sincere plagiarism, like borrowing is sincere stealing.


© 2009 Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Transgendered Words Plus Some

"I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none."

        - Robert Frost

The fashion today is to dress nouns as verbs, verbs as adjectives, adjectives as nouns, and so on. Right words do exist, but they are no longer gender-specific. "[O]ne word or none?" Today, its transgendered words plus some. If you can think it you can use it.


© 2009, Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Objective Confusion

"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."
          - Walter Cronkite

I'm confused: Is objective journalism similar to the Bible or to Playboy magazine? I thought objective journalism was cliché for oxymoron. Go figure.



© 2009, Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Pantings of Your Fingers

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..."

- William Wordsworth

Fill your life with the pantings of your fingers.


© 2009, Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved

Why Write

“There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world.”

                            - John Fowles

I have trouble with writing quotations when powerful beginnings are followed by weak opinions -- opinions I do not, cannot, and will not share. Is it true? Is “a need to create an alternative world” the “in common” reason novelists write? Really?

"[T]he need to create an alternative world” is more consequence than reason. Novelists write because they love writing. Now there is a reason!

© 2009, Steven R. Lundin, all rights reserved