Roxanne Barbour's Blog, page 5
November 10, 2017
November 9, 2017
Quotation – November 9, 2017
The purpose of art is the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Glenn Gould
November 7, 2017
Quotation – November 7, 2017
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway
November 3, 2017
Quotation – November 3, 2017
There is no finer form of fiction than the mystery. It has structure, a storyline and a sense of place and pace. It is the one genre where the reader and the writer are pitted against each other. Readers don’t want to guess the ending, but they don’t want to be so baffled that it annoys them…The research you do is crucial. In mystery fiction, you have to tell the truth. You can’t fool the reader and expect to get away with it.
Sue Grafton
October 28, 2017
Quotation – October 28, 2017
Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called ‘pretentious’ by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.
Jack Kerouac
October 26, 2017
Quotation – October 26, 2017
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, “This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I’m doing the best I can–buy me or not–but this is who I am as a writer.’
David Morrell
October 20, 2017
Quotation – October 20, 2017
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
October 17, 2017
Quotation – October 17, 2017
You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.
Albert Einstein
