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About Words

"The greatest thing in style is to have command of metaphor. This power cannot be acquired; it is a mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."

Aristotle

Writer's Humor

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

About Writing

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


"This before all: ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: must I write? Dig down into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be in the affirmative, if you may meet this solemn question with a strong and simple, I must, then build your life according to this necessity."

Rainer Maria Rilke


"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

Stephen King


"There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily."

Anthony Trollope


"There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"I cannot express the gratitude I feel for the excellence and professionalism shown me during the recent development of a manuscript. Penny was in tune to the flavor, the style, and the nature of the project, along with being sensitive to the urgency to get it finalized. She did not hesitate to ask questions to better understand the where, why, and what for involved. She openly made recommendations, but did not force them into the project. Her recommendations came with explanations and points to consider. She was courteous and very prompt in her turn around. I thank her for every part she played in the development and completion of this project. "

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Famous Quotes

"Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story."

Katherine Anne Porter

Writing Humor

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."

Kinsley Amis


"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs."

David Ben Gurion


"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 best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

Flannery O'Connor


"Writers will happen in the best of families."

Rita Mae Brown


"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

Tom Clancey


"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Winston Churchill


"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

E.L. Doctorow


"Be obscure clearly."

E.B. White


"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."

Baltasar Gracian


"It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do."

Uniek Swain