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Category: Thought for Today

  • 24th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘I write to discover what I know.’ — Flannery O’Connor #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #discover #know #TheseAreNotMyBags This is the seventh and final day of quotes about writing. If you’ve been reading these musings this week, you’ll know I’ve been writing all week. I’ve reached 12,500 words, and now have a habit. I…

  • 23rd October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.’ — Ayn Rand #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #focus #words #TheseAreNotMyBags Ayn Rand was an interesting woman. Her philosophy (Objectivism) and her writing seem to provoke strong feelings one way or the other. I have no such ambitions in writing, I think I can write something…

  • 22nd October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.’ — Isaac Asimov #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #faster #words #TheseAreNotMyBags Isaac Asimov was one of my favourites, especially as a teenager. I’m delighted to see that the Foundation trilogy is coming to the…

  • 21st October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.’ — Erica Jong #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #finishing #judgement #TheseAreNotMyBags This quote is a reminder that the book I started 5 years ago, writing in a cottage in the Highlands, remains unfinished. If I had…

  • 20th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.’ — John Steinbeck #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #ideas #rabbits #TheseAreNotMyBags Day two of seven days of writing, yesterday went well and ended on 3,200 words. To put this in context, the word…

  • 19th October 2020

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    Thought for today:  ‘A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.’ — Thomas Mann #thoughtfortoday #writer #writing #difficulty Day one of seven days of writing, I am at my desk with allocated times for writing. And allocated times for not writing. That’s how I work, time on,…

  • 18th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.’ — Stephen King #thoughtfortoday #read #write #simple #stephenking As I embark on seven days of writing, I realise it is also seven days of reading. I also realise that despite planning for…

  • 17th October 2020

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    Thought for today:   ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’   ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.’   ‘I don’t much care where –’   ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.’   — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland   #thoughtfortoday…

  • 16th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting’ — Andy Warhol #thoughtfortoday #anticipation #waiting #exciting #andywarhol Next week I have my first proper break since the start of the lockdown. It is a bit too long to go without a break, but that’s how the timing worked out. I am…

  • 15th October 2020

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    Thought for today: ‘Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.’ — George Jean Nathan #thoughtfortoday #badofficials #goodcitizens #vote I was struck by photographs of US citizens lining up to vote. The comment in the paper said this was nothing to do with difficulties in administration and everything to do with unprecedented…