Quotes - Harrison Pierce (writing_with_angst) (Bothell, WA) Showing 1-11 of 11

#1

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: on-writing

2181 likes

#2

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: ideas

701 likes

#3

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19445 likes

#4

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency

602 likes

#5

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
― William Faulkner

tags: inspirational, writing

244 likes

#6

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

tags: caricature, characters, skill, true-to-life, writing

448 likes

#7

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing

1891 likes

#8

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

82184 likes

#9

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

tags: new-england-wisdom

2477 likes

#10

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity

1493 likes

#11

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

1762 likes

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