Writer's Notes - By Jeanne Dininni

1. The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ~ Robert Benchley ~

2. To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~

3. Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
~ Patrick Dennis ~

4. The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ~ E. L. Doctorow ~

5. I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. ~ William Faulkner ~

6. He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~

7. The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. ~ William Golding ~

8. A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer. ~ George Gribbon ~

9. The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
~ William Hazlitt ~

10. You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. ~ Horace ~


Happy contemplating!
Jeanne



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