Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[blunthead]

verisimilitude (-sə-ˈmi-lə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd) noun, the quality or state of being verisimilar [(1. having the appearance of truth; probable 2. depicting realism (as in art or literature)].

However, just a little more attention to detail would add a welcome dose of verisimilitude to those stories which do involve guns.

[kingzeppelin]

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”


Stephen King, Night Shift

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”

-John Cheever

[marleyboy4945]

"Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?"

[tenngolfer]

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?

Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen

[kingzeppelin]

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that mothersmucker from space without a telescope.”

Stephen King

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance... it is laying hold of His highest willingness."

-Archbishop Richard Trench

[blunthead]

No matter how good you are, no matter how much experience you have, it's probably impossible to get the entire fossil out of the ground without a few breaks and losses. To get even most of it, the shovel must give way to more delicate tools: air hose, palm-pick, perhaps even a toothbrush. Plot is a far bigger tool, the writer's jackhammer. You can liberate a fossil from hard ground with a jackhammer, no argument there, but you know as well as I do that the jackhammer is going to break almost as much stuff as it liberates. It's clumsy, mechanical, anticreative. Plot is, I think the good writer's last resort and the dullard's first choice. The story which results from it is apt to feel artificial and labored. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[if-so-Grrl]

"Do you ever get to feeling that the story's too damned real and in the present...tense?"

-Jethro Tull, Skating Away

[Dobruk]

"For when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life."
-H.P. Lovecraft, Celephais ​