Wednesday, March 16, 2011

My Ancient Life: Quotations of Note, 3

I’m off at VCCA, writing like a maniac—I hope! I may post about what’s going on there, and I may not. In case of the latter, I’m leaving behind some of my favorite “inspirational” quotations that I hand-copied into a notebook, using my very neatest handwriting, while I was in high school, and spilling into the early years of college. Several grandiose themes will probably emerge….

“I’m as restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
Amory

“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
Amory

[There are about a dozen more from this book...which I don't think I've read since then.]

Work-in-Progress

DC-area author Leslie Pietrzyk explores the creative process and all things literary.