catsignal – Page 45 – fiction, haiku, quotations, etc.

Quotable 282

First learn to be a craftsman; it won’t keep you from being a genius.
– Eugène Delacroix

she lies down on
her toy mouse
game over

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.
– Antony Beevor

low pressure
brings high pressure –
grass fires

The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning.
– Sam Shepard

graves are everywhere –
they just have to be
opened

I work on the assumption, or the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
– Clive James

watching
the dog show
with my cat

The real key to pacing in fiction isn’t to make events happen faster, it’s to give them more meaning so that we care.
– C. C. Finlay

two raindrops
and a snowflake
internet outage