The Washington Post’s neologism contest winners.

02 Dec, 2019

I came across this today and broke up laughing. These are seriously clever! Thanks to the Washington Post. I wasn't aware of their neologism contest, but I am now! Read and enjoy. Pass it along.

The Washington Post’s neologism contest winners.

December 2, 2019June 5, 2026

I came across this today and broke up laughing. These are seriously clever! Thanks to the Washington Post. I wasn’t aware of Read More...

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.