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If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.


Nikki Giovanni


#writer-quotes #writing #writers-quotes

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?


Peter S. Beagle


#writing #writers-quotes

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.


Ludwig Bemelmans


#around #belly #books #copy #done

You need a place just a click over middle range. Don’t want to go all-out first time, but you don’t want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place.” “Bob, you’re going to give me an ulcer.” “This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn’t want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you’ll split it. Women love that. Sharing dessert’s sexy. Do not go on and on about your job over dinner. Certain death. Get her to talk about hers, and what she likes to do. Then—” “Should I be writing this down?


Nora Roberts


#friends #friendships #humor #love #dating

He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.


Christina Rossetti


#gabriel-rossetti #lizzie-siddal #poetry #pre-raphaelite #dreams

You think you're charging up that memory? Is that what you think? You are going to be so sorry when I dream about my experience of eating chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream yesterday. Now that was exciting.


Carolyn Crane


#dreams

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.


Andy Warhol


#between #exciting #meet #most #never

1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor. 3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake. 4. Pick one — fame or delight. 5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket. 6. Cunning and excess are your friends. 7. TV and liquor are your enemies. 8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m. 9. You’re done when the crows sing.


Ron Dakron


#dakron #on-writing #ron-dakron #rules #writers

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.


Peter Benchley


#extinct #forest #learn #man #oceans

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.


Harold Washington


#assets #day #every #every day #face






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