Childhood memories Quote by John Geddes

“maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness”

— Robert James Waller

“Oh, no. A story. This was perhaps too maudlin and too much for the early hour, but handsome and heart-broken young men could occasionally…

— Cassandra Clare

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

“But for the most part, she was the Maude who Alice would have said she wanted all along. But instead of seeming more reasonable,…

— Carol Anshaw

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond

“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“I was green with envy, Maude. Do you take pleasure in tormenting the person who’s given you his heart wholeheartedly ever since the day…

— Anna Adams

“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.”

— Roberto Bolano

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?”

— Theresa Rebeck

“The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in her case…

— Virginia Woolf