on writing
"I've always thought it would be wonderful to be a writer," she says. "To know, just like that, how to put the right words together."
I smile politely. The truth is, if I do miraculously manage to put the right words together, it's by default, because I've already used up all the wrong ones. And when you get right down to it, what I don't say is probably more important than what I do.
--Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult.
I smile politely. The truth is, if I do miraculously manage to put the right words together, it's by default, because I've already used up all the wrong ones. And when you get right down to it, what I don't say is probably more important than what I do.
--Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult.
posted by Alison Inaz @ 7:13 AM
2 Comments:
At Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:47:00 PM,
Unknown said…
I love this quote. I am still in the process of putting all the wrong words together. Maybe someday I too will have used them all up.
PS. My dad always told me that all you need to create a masterpiece is a pencil, pad of paper, and a dictionary.
At Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:47:00 PM,
Unknown said…
I love this quote. I am still in the process of putting all the wrong words together. Maybe someday I too will have used them all up.
PS. My dad always told me that all you need to create a masterpiece is a pencil, pad of paper, and a dictionary.
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