A Garden full of quotes :)

Many of these I have written down over the years because I love them so much, but a few I just recently stumbled upon. They just made my day better...
Sometimes I could go for hours reading quote after little saying and it never grows old. Enjoy!

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

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~James Michener

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracián

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane

I'm back....

There is something about typing my thoughts down on a screen instead of wring with pen and ink on paper, that blocks my mind and causes havoc on my brain. I don’t know if there’s a disconnect between the motions my hand make as I write or the lack of them as I type, and it is something I'm working on conquering.

How does one accomplish this? I wish someone would tell me. Lately I’ve been struggling with writing even a little bit. I feel no deep longing to write and this worries me. I know that good writing takes practice and the strength to sit and put words down on paper, even when you’re not feeling creative in the slightest. Out of hard work comes masterpieces.

To me this quote explains a lot.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler

Lately this is how I feel all the time. It’s almost been easier for me to write essays and such, than it for me to put down in writing my thought’s or recent happenings in my life.

So this right here is me dragging words out of my throat, can’t you tell? I know I can.

Until another time, and I promise it won’t be so long.

Love your tired college student.