The Washington Post’s neologism contest winners.

02 Dec, 2019

I came across this today and broke up laughing. These are seriously clever! Thanks to the Washington Post. I wasn't aware of their neologism contest, but I am now! Read and enjoy. Pass it along.

The Washington Post’s neologism contest winners.

December 2, 2019July 21, 2023

I came across this today and broke up laughing. These are seriously clever! Thanks to the Washington Post. I wasn’t aware of Read More...

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.