July 29th, 2008.
WOW, It has been forever since I've actually done anything with this site. I was formally known as Raider-2005, but I have finally gotten rid of that. Anyway, I'm 21 now and I've been recently bitten by the writing bug. Oh, and please forgive my bad habit of fragments and run-ons.
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." -Howard Aiken
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything." -Walter Bagehot
"Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders." -Stephen Vizinczey
"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."-Colette
"Review. Reread. Rewrite." -George Mair
"The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Clichés are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect the scene he is trying to dramatize enough to fashion it through precise prose and imaginative imagery."
"Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action." -Paul J. Meyer
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." -W. Somerset Maugham
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