Thursday, October 23, 2008

Quoth The Hemingway

From the Creative Screenwriting Weekly Newsletter-

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."

– Ernest Hemingway

"If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing."

– Benjamin Franklin

6 comments:

Katie Schwartz said...

I NEEDED THESE QUOTES. Beautiful. Thank you for posting them.

Cormac Brown said...

Katie-lah,

Thanks for reading them and if anyone can live up to those quotes, it's you.

DivaJood said...

Fantastic quotes. Thank you for visiting me, I love seeing you around the intertubes.

Cormac Brown said...

Diva,

You're welcome and thank you for linking me, I linked you back.

Gifted Typist said...

In the past few years fiction has seemed more like truth and journalism more like fiction

Cormac Brown said...

Gifted,

Too true...