Quirky Quotes

Quirky Quotes

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them”

-Mark Twain

    

     “I love being a writer, what I can’t stand is the paperwork.”

-Peter DeVires

      “Writing is easy, all you have to do is stare at a blank sheet over paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

-Gene Fowler

   “When you put something down that happened, people often don’t believe it; whereas you can

 make up anything , and people assume it must have happened to you.

-Andrew Holleran

    “The role of a writer is less what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

-Anais Nin

  “The free lance writer is a man who is paid per piece, per word or perhaps.”

-Robert Benchley

  “I write to discover what I think.”

-Daniel J. Boorstin

   “Writers and Politian’s are natural rivals, both groups try to make the world in their image; they fight for the same territory.”

-Salmon Rushdie

   “Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites he’s lines in the hidden auditorium of skull.”

-Rod Serling

   “If there is a special hell for writers, it would be the forced contemplation of their own works.”

-John Dos Passos

   “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

-Robert Benchley

“I’m writing a book, I’ve got the page numbers done.”

-Steven Wright

“I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.”

P. G. Wodehouse ...after being asked about his writing technique

“I only write when I am inspired, fortunately , I am inspired every day at nine o’clock.”

-William Faulkner

Quirky or Annoying?

I have noticed in my supreme observations(ha.ha) that there are some quirks out there in books that are...annoying. A quirk is something that is something only a certain character has. Nervous habit, phrase they always say, popping knuckles. The benefit in putting a quirk to some character is that it defines them, as well clues the readers into what their feeling without just coming out and saying what they felt. However, I was reading this one series of books (Fallen, Lauren Kate, 2 stars) where the main character cracked her knuckles when she was nervous, bored, or awkward. It started off as a way for another character to remember her , then morphed into a constant, somewhat random habit of the author. It took from the story in my own opinion, but not all quirks have too. I have a friend who's a Blondie, blue-eyed and cheery. She's like a  bubble of happiness. She used to have this habit we'd tease her about non-stop, she's sweep her bangs out of her face and simultaneously say "Seriously" But now thinking back on it, I realize that it was a window to her deeper self. She is really very a well thought out person, and can be serious. This was her way of agreeing, of making things more serious. In a book this would be a bit to reveal herself more to reader, for them to get to know her better.

What are some quirks you've read about, or know?