Roxanne Barbour's Blog, page 9
July 26, 2017
Quotation – July 26, 2017
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like painting by the numbers, they often remain stick figures. They will never take on a life of their own. The most exciting thing is when you find a character doing something surprising or unplanned. Like a character saying to me: ‘Hey Richard, you may think I work for you, but I don’t. I’m my own person.
Richard North Patterson
July 18, 2017
Quotation – July 18, 2017
“Don’t you worry, and don’t you hurry.”
I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.
Mark Twain
July 16, 2017
Quotation – July 16, 2017
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Mark Twain
July 12, 2017
Quotation – July 12, 2017
When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time–20 years in the case of “Imperial Earth”, and 10 years in the case of the novel I’m presently working on. So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas. It’s amazing how the subconscious self works on these things. I don’t worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
Arthur C. Clarke
July 7, 2017
Quotation – July 7, 2017
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s voice, another’s soul.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Peony
July 5, 2017
Quotation – July 5, 2017
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Albert Einstein
July 3, 2017
Quotation #2 – July 3, 2017
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James Michener
Quotation – July 3, 2017
The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took me years to figure out that I need to write in a corner. Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall…and then I can write.
Danielle Steel
July 2, 2017
Quotation – July 2, 2017
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
July 1, 2017
Quotation – July 1, 2017
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners’ names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook
