Monday Quote Day!

TV came relatively late to the King household, and I’m glad. I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

{Stephen King}

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

{John Muir}

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

{Elie Wiesel}

The first draft reveals the art, revision reveals the artist.

{Michael Lee}

Books aren't written–they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

{Michael Crichton}

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. 

{Terry Pratchett}

Creativity lies not in the done but in doing.

{Julia Cameron}

Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

{Stephen King}

Happy Monday and happy writing, Zigzaggers!!!