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video gen. patton’s raunchy poem

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Lyrics & Poetry Writing: Gen. George Patton’s raunchy poem.

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

Steven Bochco

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Roald Dahl

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

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult