"If a Pulitzer comes your way, grab it with both hands."

Mrs. Peterson

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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

- Bob Edwards

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." (Guess Who?)

Also, I like Montaigne's "Je suis moy-mesmes la matière de mon livre."*

A short explanation:
I collect writing quotes because I write; I use them to inspire me. The top one got me through the final edit of a project.

* "I am, myself, the content of my book" (I take it as the purest definition of the advice: Write What You Know).

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C. S. Lewis

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death"

Oscar Wilde

"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."

- Woody Allen

Indeed - I also love his theological quotes, as well:

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

- Woody Allen

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

- Woody Allen

The crowd is composed of individuals, but it must also be in the power of each one to be what he is: an individual; and no one, no one at all, no one whatsoever, is prevented from being an individual unless he prevents himself--by becoming one of the masses.

Kierkegaard

What's up Doc?

"Fuck you, everybody smokes during their pregnancy!"

Courtney love


that one cracks me up.

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."

- Charles Peters

"No system captures God. All systems finally empty into God."

- Spong

Almost makes sense once in a while. Strong emphasis on Almost.

-Phil on Spong