Quotable Quotes by Angie Ledbetter
Below are some of my favorite quotes. They always inspire me when I hit a rough writing patch or dry spell. Please feel free to share yours in a comment...especially if it’s one of your own.
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." ~ Isaac Asimov
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." ~ T S Eliot
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers had it." ~ Ernest Hemingway
"To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." ~ Truman Capote
"The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies." ~ William Faulkner
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you." ~ Stephen King
"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." W B Yeats
Angie Ledbetter is co-Publishing Editor of Rose & Thorn Journal. Visit her in the blogosphere or Twitterville .
Love these, thank you for sharing!
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Love the quotes. Especially that first one.
Perseverance!
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Ah....I particularly love the Capote quote. "....music the words make" It's so true! Was Hemingway's quote supposed to end past tense? "....all great writers had it."
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Angie-- great quotes-- like a shot of energy to keep at this thing we do!!
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Love it!
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My pleasure Yu-Han.
Janna - Glad you enjoyed.
Texas -- egads! Should be, "...have had it." Thanks!
Feel the same way Julianne.
Thanks Kat.
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"shock-proof shit detector" ... hahahahaha! i love that so much. awesome.
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