Arthur Plotnik famous quotes

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
-- Arthur Plotnik

#Writing #Heart #Mind

The Web is cool, but the library is magic.
-- Arthur Plotnik

#Magic #Library

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
-- Arthur Plotnik

#Fire #Shows

It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide to job success and survival. The surprise is how urgent it is for every author, client, and boss who works with editors to embrace Carol Fisher Saller's 'subversiveness'-or suffer the next outcome from hell.
-- Arthur Plotnik

#Jobs #Real #Knowing

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.
-- Arthur Plotnik

#Dream #Clever #Writing

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.