Playing cards Quote by Chuck Wendig Download Open image ““The Muse is not real. Relying on the Muse is like leaning on a crutch made of playing cards.”” — Chuck Wendig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Playing Card Playing cards
“The muses are wicked and wonderful, devious and delightful, not to be trusted and not to be ignored. Thank God we have them.” — Mark W. Travis Copy Share Image
“To be a muse is to be a wonder in someone else's eyes, flaws and all.” — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He’s a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in.… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.” — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've got a… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Things happen in this life. Sometimes they're good things, and sometimes they're bad things. You have to come to terms with the bad things,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“You thought what? That because you’re a nice guy, my panties will just drop because you deserve to have my thighs around your ears?… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Today is a day of celebration. We have triumphed over villainy and oppression and have given our Alliance—and the galaxy beyond it—a chance to… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Write as much as you can. As fast as you can. Finish your shit. Hit your deadlines. Try very hard not to suck.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“As members of the Church, there are things you cannot do. For one, you cannot take a Las Vegas-style vacation. I do not know… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“Zed and Sky had stayed behind and were chatting with Will, Sky sitting on Zed's knee as if nothing was going to get them… — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange his cuttings… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My grandmother is the type of person, I'd be down playing cards in the park, and she'd take the dog and walk down to… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
“The dismembered limbs of dolls and puppets are strewn about everywhere. Posters, signs, billboards, and leaflets of various sorts are scattered around like playing… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Don't we all deal with life the way we do our military service? Doing what we can, while we wait either to be demobbed… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image