Neil > Neil's Quotes

Showing 1-29 of 29
sort by

  • #1
    John Steinbeck
    “The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #2
    Valerie Sherwood
    “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

  • #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

  • #4
    Niyi Osundare
    “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

  • #5
    Ovid
    “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

  • #6
    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

  • #7
    Raymond Chandler
    “Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
    Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

  • #8
    Raymond Chandler
    “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

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ernest hemingway

  • #13
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Raymond Chandler
    “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

  • #19
    Raymond Chandler
    “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

  • #20
    John Steinbeck
    “Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.”
    John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #22
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “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

  • #23
    Agatha Christie
    “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

  • #24
    Agatha Christie
    “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

  • #25
    Agatha Christie
    “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

  • #26
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “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.

  • #27
    John Steinbeck
    “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

  • #28
    John Steinbeck
    “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

  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #30
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #31
    John Steinbeck
    “I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America



Rss