Movies!

So, a couple of new movies are coming out that I think look really good...

I AM NUMBER FOUR (Starring: Alex Pettyfer) http://www.findnumberfour.com

BEASTLY (Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Vansessa Hudgens) http://www.beastlythemovie.com/

Why do I even have on of these?

Yeah, you heard me you electronic person! I don't know why I put up with you, I just do and it drives me crazy. So thank you computers, thank you technology, thank you bored, writing me, thank you everything!

Anyway, MERRY CHRISTMAS! Who is ready for some Christmas fun facts?

• Joulupukki is another name for Santa
• In the Netherlands Santa doesn't drive a sleigh he rides a steamboat!
• The German Santa comes in through the front door
• France has a Bad Santa who beats naughty kids with sticks
• The Yo-Yo is believed to have once been used for hunting
• The tallest living Christmas Tree is in Idaho and is 161 feet tall
• In Poland children receive presents twice! (Hey Mom, can we go to Poland?)

That's it,

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Q...Qu...Quo...Quot...Quote...QUOTES!!!!!!!!

Yeah, so I was bored... trying to write and I'm going to post awesome quotes now... about WRITING!

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracián

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ~Sinclair Lewis

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams. ~Terri Guillemets

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ~Jean Luc Godard

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Goethe

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

- Anatole Broyard

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.

- C. J. Cherryh

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

- Richard Curtis

Never throw up on an editor.

- Ellen Datlow

Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.

- Nancy Ann Dibble

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.

- William Campbell Gault

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

- Ernest Hemingway

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

- Eugene Ionesco

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

- Stephen King

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

- Barbara Kingsolver

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary -- it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

- Somerset Maugham

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

- Somerset Maugham

There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, no one can agree what they are.

- Somerset Maugham

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

- Somerset Maugham

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

- Frederich Nietzsche

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. If all feels hopeless, if that famous 'inspiration' will not come, write. If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

- J. B. Priestly

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.

- P. G. Wodehouse

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

- P. G. Wodehouse

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison


A good book has no ending. ~R.D. Cumming


I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991


Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot


Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx


I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm


A dirty book is rarely dusty. ~Author Unknown

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917


Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.
Anonymous

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
John Irving

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
Eugene Ionesco

Writing is a fairly lonely business unless you invite people in to watch you do it, which is often distracting and then have to ask them to leave.
Marc Lawrence

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin

Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
Ursula K. LeGuin

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
Ursula K. LeGuin

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.
Stephen Leigh

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond Chandler

The first chapter sells the book. The last chapter sells the next book.
Mickey Spillane

When in doubt, blow something up.
J. Michael Straczynski

You are what you read.
Esko Valtaoja

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Frederic Raphael

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
Tom Stoppard

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana Trump

Get you facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain

First, find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him.
Ray Bradbury

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov

Sorry, it's a lot I know... but feel free to use them

My First Day

So this is my very first time with a blog... don't know how well it's going to go.

I'm just going to talk right now... let's see about one of my favorite things to do BE ON INKPOP!

It's this writing website (as I'm sure Inkpoppers will know) where I love to spend all of my time. I'll be posting updates on here about my writing (and on Inkpop), and about favorite books both published and not... so yeah that was a waste of space...