Stories

 "We are all stories in the end."   - Stephen Moffet

"In the end, we'll all become stories."  -  Margaret Atwood 

"When we die we turn into stories. And every time someone tells one of those stories, it’s like we’re still here for them. We’re all stories in the end." - character Olivia Crain, The Haunting of Hill House.

Vonnegut's 8 rules of Writing

   Putting this here so I know where to find it later.  

8 Rules for Writing - Kurt Vonnegut 

• Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 
• Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.  Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 
• Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. 
• Start as close to the end as possible. 
• Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of. 
• Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. 
• Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

 "What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we are the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle" - Stephen King, the Cell

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Life has been your art.”  

 “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

another from Stephen King

"On Writing" :

"Stopping a piece of work just because its hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea.  Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."
       

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
      - Aldous Huxley

"People Who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil.  I don't know why.  No I do indeed know why:  Evil is Always Possible. and Goodness is eternally Difficult."      Louis:  Interview with a Vampire  by Anne Rice

Quotes from the internet

Just a general disclaimer:  Most of these quotes I find on the internet.  Sooooo ..... you know what Abe Lincoln said right?, "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." If any of my quotes are wrong, I apologize in advance.  

But role model & mentor for all things awesome , John Green did a vlog entry about how he was misquoted - AND he didn't even realize it!!!! 

John Green Misquoted & fesses up!

Mandy Nichols: If you're thirsty, a drink will cure it, if you're not, a drink will prevent it. Prevention is better than a cure.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)