Red_Leasia
“It’s okay. Writers should be strange.”— Edgar Allan Poe
pattuck418
@Red_Leasia exactly. We wouldn’t be able to be creative without that touch of strangeness.
Red_Leasia
Red_Leasia
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
Red_Leasia
“You always get more respect when you don’t have a happy ending.”
– Julia Quinn
^^ Is this true? I'm not going to lie, I love a good happily ever after ending.
katrin_writes
@Red_Leasia I can see that, but it may be topic-specific. I think love stories get more acclaim when they are dramas with a sad ending rather than romance with a happy ending.
RiisingNovels
@Red_Leasia No idea actually. I think it's very individual. I respect writers that write well, have good characters and a good plot, no matter the ending.
Nablai
@Red_Leasia I don't believe you need sad endings to command respect. Happy endings are better and infinitely more respectful than sad endings as they give hope to an otherwise bleak world.
Red_Leasia
"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being." - Erica Jong
Red_Leasia
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and is widely considered a bad move."
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Red_Leasia
“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.” – James Joyce
Red_Leasia
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book. – Douglas Adams
pattuck418
@Red_Leasia Very true! That's why I'm pouring out chapters of Prelude to Retribution as soon as they come to me. It's better to get it out there and revise as I go along than to keep it locked in my heart and head.
Red_Leasia
“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” — Victor Hugo
pattuck418
@Red_Leasia yeah. The college does little that makes sense. Next year they are going to exclusively eight week classes that nobody wants or is happy about.
pattuck418
@Red_Leasia on this site (not talking about you at all) readers are trapped in a cycle of reading drivel and poorly written works. The school I work for shut down its creative writing classes because they went from well-written works to Wattpad in class. The powers-that-be said those kinds of works were not fit for a college environment. Go figure.
Red_Leasia
"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott
ScotMorrison
@Red_Leasia my muse introduced imagination to creativity on a Sunday afternoon. What followed was an amazing conversation as white and black swans lit into the bluish-green sky. From a chat near a quiet lake a new story was born. Whether it was read or not, is another story waiting to be told.
newlywrittenbooks
Hey there ❤
Thanks for adding "Share Your Story Quotes" to your reading list! We really appreciate the support =]