Summer Friend: Secret Ingredients for Writing

Secret Ingredients for Writing

6 comments:

Sandy Nawrot said...: Throw in a little chocolate and that would do it for me!; September 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Charles Gramlich said...: Just one energy drink makes my heart race.; September 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Shelli Cornelison said...: Your desk to too clean for a writer. Clutter it up pronto!; September 21, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Shelli Cornelison said...: Okay, should have been your desk IS too clean...
No more caffeine for me today.; September 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Danette Haworth said...: Sandy,

A fun-sized Reese's peanut butter cup was on the other side of my computer (gift from my daughter).

Charles,
I know what you mean! One can lasts me a few days. If I could find them in smaller cans, I'd get them.

Shelli,
Hah! I pushed everything to the side to make it look neat! Then I had to put everything back because I couldn't work without all my papers and sticky notes.; September 21, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Kimbra Kasch said...: You will not believe it - but I have that exact low-carb Monster sitting next to me right now ;) great minds think alike. :); September 21, 2009 at 11:15 PM

Thoughts on Writing

"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." --Isaac Asimov

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous." --Robert Benchley

"When writers meet, they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B's. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B; if yes, then all is well." --Cyril Connolly

"Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to." --Carl Van Doren

"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." --Gene Fowler

"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble writing the others." --MoliFre

"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window." --Burton Rascoe

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." --Gloria Steinem

"I love being a writer; what I can't stand is the paperwork." --Peter De Vries

"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again." --Oscar Wilde

"I will tell you a story." --Jesus (Matthew 21:28, CEV)