Quote Me This (Warm Ups)

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How many of us are having major surgery next week? Next month? To those of you undergoing whatever treatments and procedures over the course of the next little while and still attempting NaNo, I salute you. Your strength and determination are to be commended.

♥


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The First Sentence First and Second Quotes
Choose: One
Writing Time: 6 minutes

Quote #1: Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E.L. Doctorow

Quote #2: A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. - Charles Peguy

The Non Sequitur Third and Fourth Quotes
Choose: One (OR choose one, write for time, choose the other, write for time)
Writing Time: 3 minutes

Quote #3: If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

Quote #4: What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.- Logan Pearsall Smith

The Last Straw Fifth and Sixth Quotes
Choose: One
Writing Time: 6 minutes

Quote #5: Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain

Quote #6: Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. -Emme Woodhull-Bäche

[Disclaimer: The above quotes belong to their respective speakers/writers. We're just having a bit of fun. Not profiting, no suing, please :) Apologies for duplicates!]