Quotes II

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
~Ursula Le Guin

"While I was writing A Wind In the Door, I spent a long time finding the word I needed, and finally came across kythe in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary published in 1856, which I inherited from my grandfather. The first definition is 'to be manifest'; the second, 'to come in sight'; the third, 'to appear in proper character' and he quotes, 'he will kythe in his ain colours' with the explanation added, 'he will appear without disguise.'"
~Madeleine L'Engle

The road to hell is paved with adverbs
~Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

Quotes I

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance to the dictates of reason.

~ Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist