Quote of the Week: July 29, 2009
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.”
- Liz Carpenter
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“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.”
- Liz Carpenter
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
“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
“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
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
”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 [...]
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