Monday Quote Day!

No writers ever forget their first acceptance. One fine day when I was seventeen I had my first, second, and third, all in the same morning’s mail. Oh, I’m here to tell you, dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

{Truman Capote}

The first line of a poem is a hawk which won’t let go of its prey.

{Gabriel Preil}

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

{F. Scott Fitzgerald}

Effective writing depends on showing through action, dialogue, or detail.

{Olga Litowinsky}

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each other’s prose.

{Logan Pearsall Smith}

A productive writer learns that you can’t wait for inspiration.

{Susan Sontag}

Many a book is chosen by a reader because the title seemed promising.

{Barbara Seuling}

There is no better feeling to me than writing. I love to make a picture come to life and dance under my pen.

{Lolita Prince}

Every word only has to be perfect.

{Ursula Nordstrom}

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give to your style.

{Sydney Smith}

Happy Monday and happy writing, Zigzaggers!!!