Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Quotes to Inspire a Writer



“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
~ Albert Einstein

"In many ways, editing yourself is the most important part of being a novelist. ... For every page in a published novel, I wrote 10 that ended up in the trash."
~ Dan Brown from www.danbrown.com (29 million copies of Da Vinci Code in print worldwide; more than 1 million of The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition in USA)

"The best advice I ever got was to write at least one page a day. Until you write a page, nothing is going to happen."
~ John Grisham (More than 100 million of his 18 books in print in 26 countries worldwide, in 23 languages)

"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers."
~ Logan Pearsall Smith

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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