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Inside every fat book is a thin book trying to get out

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. "Imaginative literature," therefore, is either boring or immoral or a mixture of both.

- Simone Weil

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy
The books that people talk about we never can recall
And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

- Carolyn Wells

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

- W. D. Wetherell

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

- E. B. White

There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

- E. B. White

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

- Oscar Wilde

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

- Oscar Wilde

If the sex scene doesn't make you want to do it - whatever it is they're doing - it hasn't been written right.

- Sloan Wilson

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.

- P. G. Wodehouse

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

- P. G. Wodehouse

Pay attention to the sound of words.

- Dave Wolverton

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

- Jack Woodford

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

- Alexander Woollcott

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

- Richard Wright

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

- Stephen Wright

Saturday, June 16, 2012

I HAVE MOVED!

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