Showing posts with label Somerset Maugham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Somerset Maugham. Show all posts

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Writing Quotes


The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.  ~Anaïs Nin

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.  ~Ray Bradbury

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.  ~Sinclair Lewis

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best style is the style you don't notice.  ~Somerset Maugham

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. ~Ernest Hemingway

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Quotes on Habits


A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.  ~Frank A. Clark

Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.  ~Jim Ryun

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.  ~Yiddish Proverb

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.  ~Somerset Maugham

Here's to a great day!!

C~