Edward Hackemer > Edward's Quotes

“Author:
A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape with wanton disregard. His days are spent picking up all the stray free words he can handle and squirreling them away for later use.
Subsequently, (days, months or years later) working by candlelight and hidden away in his dank, musty secluded lair, the rogue simply rearranges the collected words on yellowed bond with a sharpened quill ink pen fashioned from the tail feather of a bald-headed vulture.
Once finished, the dastardly cur audaciously attempts to sell those assembled pages for fleeting fame and profit.”
― Leopold Throckmorton

“You can be on the right track and still get run over by the 2:40 from Albuquerque.”
― Will Rogers

“Nothing succeeds like success ... and failure is no success at all.”
― Elston Gunn

“I've a right to think," said Alice sharply.
"Just about as much right," said the Duchess, "as pigs have to fly."
~ Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 ~”
― Lewis Carroll

“It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence
- no first draft.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”
― Dorothy Parker

“To those who have imaginative minds. Don't hesitate to put down your ideas on paper. They might take you down an unexpected path.”
― Adam Ressler, Scorpid