Monday Quote Day!

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.  

{Ray Bradbury}

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge and, if he's good, the older he gets the better he writes.

{Mickey Spillane}

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

{Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith}

Writing is a craft before it is an art.

{Donald M. Murray}

…the idea [must be] tall enough to be made into a book.

{Lee Wyndham} 

The work of art as completely realized is the result of a long and complex process of exploration.

{Joyce Cary}

You can never know enough about your characters.

{W. Somerset Maugham}

The first lines of a story teach us how to read it.

{John L’Heureux}

A plot is what happens when there is a problem that needs solving.

{Jean E. Karl}

A book should end with the unexpected expected.

{Jane Yolen}

Happy Monday and happy writing, Zigzaggers!!!