Carolyn Coman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value

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