Quotes - Neil (neillow) (Snohomish, WA) Showing 1-29 of 29

#1

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
― John Steinbeck

#2

“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.”
― Valerie Sherwood

tags: writing-craft, writing-from-the-heart

40 likes

#3

“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.”
― Louis L’Amour

tags: writing

34 likes

#4

“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into
a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.
Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,
physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”
― Niyi Osundare

tags: obsession, writing, writing-philosophy

21 likes

#5

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

1306 likes

#6

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

3951 likes

#7

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: detective, noir

330 likes

#8

“The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.”
― Raymond Chandler

63 likes

#9

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23594 likes

#10

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

4212 likes

#11

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

3217 likes

#12

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

tags: courage

2251 likes

#13

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

3286 likes

#15

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18161 likes

#16

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177593 likes

#18

“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

tags: ideals, police, politics, reality

71 likes

#19

“I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

tags: dicks

71 likes

#20

“Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.”
― John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle

23 likes

#21

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27900 likes

#22

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88151 likes

#23

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: love

4679 likes

#24

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: elegance, occams-razor, simplicity-imagination

619 likes

#25

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

508 likes

#26

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: bootstraps, equality, fair, reasonable, work-ethic

268 likes

#27

“Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

50 likes

#28

“Through my own efforts, I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

19 likes

#29

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

1560 likes

#30

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

383 likes

#31

“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

185 likes

Neil > Neil's Quotes

Tags From Neil’s Quotes