SIMONE FREIER

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades #authorQuote

"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.” Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber #authorQuote

Over the past year, including Twitter, Facebook, and this Blog, I have posted more than 1,000 quotes. Many of these are about love and life, and others are about writing and publishing. Below are some of the quotes about writing that I've recently posted on my Facebook page. (HERE) Posts about Writers and Writing (9/29-11/15): “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.” Truman Capote “The unread story is not a story; it is little black

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.” Oscar Wilde #authorQuote

“If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.” Wilson Mizner. #authorQuote

“Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.” Charles de Montesquieu #authorQuote

“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being #authorQuote

“A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.” Joseph Conrad #authorQuote

“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” Sidney Sheldon #authorQuote

“The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.” Richard Wright #authorQuote