Hookey Rules Quotes & Sayings

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way. — Twyla Tharp

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Now, — Herman Melville

My first novel was only a try-out,' said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I know much more clearly what I ought to do. I don't suppose you read my first book?' 'I don't think so. What was it called?' 'Why Name.' 'Why?' asked Mary. 'Exactly. Why? It is so cretinous to give a book a name. A book exists freely in itself and a name pins it down horribly. When you are in town you must meet some of my friends who are doing advanced writing and plays.' 'Are — Angela Thirkell

You don't fight fair against the devil, now do you? — Meg Winkler

He replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with — Oscar Wilde

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is. — Ruth Park