Category Archives: Writers’ words

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”   – Mark Twain

“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unrealistic expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating … Continue reading →

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” — E.L. Doctorow

Some seasonal musings from Orillia’s most famous writer: http://www.readprint.com/chapter-35726/Frenzied-Fiction-Stephen-Leacock