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Quote of the Week: July 29, 2009
Posted by Nate on Jul 29, 2009 in quotations
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.”
- Liz Carpenter
Quote of the Week: July 15, 2009
Posted by Nate on Jul 16, 2009 in quotations
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Quote of the Week: July 8, 2009
Posted by Nate on Jul 8, 2009 in quotations
“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
- John Jakes
Quote of the Week: July 1, 2009
Posted by Nate on Jul 1, 2009 in quotations
“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
- C.S. Lewis
Quote of the Week #6
Posted by Nate on Jun 24, 2009 in quotations
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O’Connor
Mark Twain Quotes
Posted by Nate on Jun 20, 2008 in quotations
”Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” – Mark Twain
Although Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are two of my favorite books, Mark Twain isn’t one of my favorite authors. Don’t get me wrong; he is by far one of the greatest American novelists. However, his work is mostly [...]