Failure ain’t an option, according to Sam Beckett (right), it’s an inevitability. It’s amazing how easy the writing lark gets when you embrace that fact …Anyone else collect mottos? I don’t go bananas on it, but over the years I have picked up a few choice writing-related lines that I keep dotted around the desk for those times when the muse is gone on the razz with her cider-swilling buddies. To wit:
“Try again, fail again, fail better.” – Samuel BeckettThe Big Question - What’s the line that gets you girding your loins and thundering once more unto the breach, Horatio?
“When you leave your typewriter you leave your machine-gun and the rats come pouring through.” – Charles Bukowski
“If you’re out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.” – Albert Einstein
“Crime is but a left-handed form of human endeavour.” – WR Burnett
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." Oscar Wilde
ReplyDelete"Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple and as complex as that." Stephen King
ReplyDeleteTa, folks ... me likey. Cheers, Dec
ReplyDeleteThis from Frank Darabont, who wrote the screenplay for The Shawshank Redemption:
ReplyDelete'....the perverse downside of seeking one's limits is that one usually FINDS them, which is akin to running headlong and unhelmeted into a brick wall on a daily basis. The good news is, every time you smack into it, that wall gets pushed a little further back... that's why it's important not to give in to your fears and doubts, and to keep writing...'