7 great American writers on writing
Ernest Hemingway once said “All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” As much as we love our Ernest, we beg to differ. It’s not just the amazing books Americans have written, which cause us to contradict Papa’s viewpoint. It’s the words of wisdom these masters have shared about their craft.
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Elmore Leonard
Toni Morrison
Stephen King
Henry Miller
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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IDEAs: 20 more quotes

21.“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”- Friedrich Nietzche
22. “I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.” – Albert Einstein
23.“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.” – Antoine St. Exupery
24. “If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.” – Charles Kettering
25.“Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.” – Woody Allen
26. “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.” – Pablo Picasso
27.“New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done; 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing; 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!” – Arthur C. Clarke
28. “Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced.” – Alfred North Whitehead
29.“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone
30. “If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” – Alfred Noble
31.“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” – William J. Cameron
32. “No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.” – Winston Churchill
33.“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.” – Thomas Mann
34. “The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.” – Bernard Baruch
35.“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” – Medgar Evers
36. “The man with a new idea is a crank — until the idea succeeds.” -Mark Twain
37.“An idea is salvation by imagination.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
38. “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage
39.“The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.” – Tom Peters
40. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward: they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Goethe
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