Satirical Truths:
Author Quotes
Don't' you love it when someone can make a point in a nutshell? Of course, it's an added bonus when combined with wit. Here's a few whimsical witticisms by the world's greatest authors.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little
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| "The road to hell is paved with adverbs". -Stephen King |
point in writing.
- Kingsley AmisI was sorry to hear my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself.
- Mark Twain
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
- Ernest Hemingway
Revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.
- Stephen King
Most editors are failed writers – but so are most writers.
-T.S. Eliot
- Paulo Coelho
All literature is gossip.
- Truman Capote
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
- Mark Twain
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
-Joseph Heller
The first draft of anything is shit.
-Ernest Hemingway
-Ernest Hemingway
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| I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -Douglas Adams |
-Sholem Asch
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
- Irvin S. Cobb
I try to leave out the parts that people skip.-Elmore Leonard
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
- Irvin S. Cobb
I try to leave out the parts that people skip.-Elmore Leonard
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
- John Steinbeck
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
-Author Unknown
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.
-Baltasar Gracián
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
-Stephen King
I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.
-James Michener
It’s not plagiarism – I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do.
-Uniek Swain
There are men that will make you books, and
turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
-Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
There are men that will make you books, and
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| Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' -Mark Twain |
-Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
-Marty Feldman
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world -- they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world -- they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
-C. N. Bovee
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
-S. Boorstein
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
- Ernest Hemingway
PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
- Ernest Hemingway
PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
-Marguerite Youcenar
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
-Robert Benchley
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
-John Steinbeck
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-Douglas Adams
Never throw up on an editor.
Never throw up on an editor.
-Ellen Datlow
The Wikipedia page, of Megan Boone - and the occupation of the South China Sea.. Danielle Lloyd, the British model in a London nightclub - and the rural life in Tennessee.. The latest US unemployment rating - and the four Dollanganger's in the Attic.. The elementary school, in France - and the street in Santa Barbara, California.. The movie website "Screenrant" - and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.. An episode of "Deal or no deal" - and a tweet by Rosa Allenza (a fellow pupil, from over ten years ago).
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this list of quotes, I don't react with anything but just emptiness; looking at the quotes, the way I feel is that they're the opposite of intelligence, just saying exactly what the status quo wants to be said, so that it can be perpetuated.
I like your honesty. Whether it's your or the authors above, everybody has the right to voice their opinion.
DeleteI "fused" facets of reality together.. That's our status quo, the "facet" reality!
DeleteNeither Barack Obama, or Francois Hollande couldn't ever do that - "fuse" reality together (that's the evidence, that we don't live in a free world Aimee). If either of the two did any such thing, that I've just done, on a public platform, they'd be hounded to their dying days.
I'm not just a revolutionary; I can be the one who leads the human race.. Day to day, the status quo is that the vast majority of the human race's existence goes unrepresented: it can be you, it can be Abby Rogers, it can be Michael Crompton, it can be Steffi Lynn, it can be Mohamed bin Ismail, or it can be Colin bailey, or it can be the lobster fisherman in Anguilla or the RSPCA councillor in the UK.. day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year the vast majority of the people on this planet are being ignored, and their existences shunned.
I'm now saying "no" to this. People deserve more than to just be left to exist as consuming creatures.. I have the power, to fuse all of reality's facets together: I now intend to use that power, destroying the global status quo!