Page Toppers

• Authors Know the Write Stuff
• I Could Write a Book
• Lady Writer
• Once upon a Time
• Paperback Writer
• Putting Pen to Paper
• Story Teller
• Teller of Tales
• With Pen in Hand
• Writers are Novel People!

Quotes

• Editing is a rewording activity.
• Fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of the fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. (Stephen King)
• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. (William Wordsworth)
• Good science fiction writers don't dream about the future and hope they're right, they have nightmares and hope they're wrong.
• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. (Sandra Cisneros)
• I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.
• I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. (Peter De Vries)
• I say to people that I am not writing, but I keep on writing in the diary, subterraneously, secretly, a writing that is not writing, but breathing. (Anais Nin)
• If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)
• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. (Toni Morrison)
• It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. (Robert Benchley)
• A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk. (Jackie Collins)
• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. (Ernest Hemingway)
• When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. (Enrique Jardiel Poncela)
• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. (Stan Barstow)
• A writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. (Rod Serling)
• The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at time strangely wills and works for itself. (Lee C. Bollinger)
• A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. (Leo Rosten)
• Writers are people who talk to themselves for a living.
• Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. (Sharon O'Brien)
• Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery. (Montaigne)
• Writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. (E.L. Doctorow)
• Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
• Writing is the art of putting black words on white paper in succession until the impression is created that something has been said. (Alexander Woollcott)

Rools four Righters

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
16. Don't use no double negatives.
17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Kill all exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas.
26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole. Not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. And finally...
34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

Songs about Writing

• Autograph - Kinky Friedman (1975)

• Big Eraser - Phil Keaggy (2005)
• Before the Ink Dries - Martin Wardley (2008)

• Eraser - Danny Freeman (2006)
• Erasers on Pencils - Ceili Rain (2000)
• Erasing Invisible Ink - Love-Cars (2002)
• Extra Sharp Pencils - Negativland (2008)

• Handwritten Apology - Hero from a Thousand Paces (2007)
• Handwriting on the Wall, The - The Dominoes (1954)
• Honesty (Write Me a List) - Rodney Atkins (2004)

• I Could Write a Book - Charlie Byrd Trio (1984)
• I Still Write Your Name in the Sand - Mac Wiseman (1952)
• I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand - Del McCoury (1970)
• I'm Writing You a Letter - Alvin Lee (1974)
• I've Got a Pocket Full of Pencils - Joe Turner (1971)
• In Ink - Eightfold Path (2004)
• India Ink - Tom Vedvik (1997)
• Ink - Amy Carr (2000)
• Ink Dries Quicker Than Tears - Dave Dudley (1956)
• Invisible Ink - Daniel Givens (2004)
• It's Written All Over Your Face - Ronnie Dunn (1983)
• It's Written in the Stars - Wayne Walker (1958)

• Lady Writer - Dire Straits (1979)

• No. 2 Pencil - BonSilo (2008)

• Paperback Writer - The Beatles (1966)
• Pen and Paper - Jerry Lee Lewis (1964)
• Pen to Paper - Jay Clark (2005)
• Pencil and Paper - Courtney Chambers (2006)
• Pencil Box - Wil Burns (2004)
• Permanent Ink - Mark Croft (2007)

• Readin', Ritin', Rhythm - Clyde McCoy Orchestra (1931)

• She Can't Read My Writing - Red Sovine (1962)
• She's Written All Over Your Face - The Whites (1987)
• Sign on the Dotted Line - Jack Earls (1956)
• Skywriter - Ron Dante (1977)
• Somebody Ought to Write a Book About it - Ray Charles (1967)
• Stories I Write, The - Bob Cheevers (1999)
• String, an Eraser, and a Blotter, A - Martindale (1965)

• This Darn Pen - Charlie Louvin (1995)
• This Old Pen - Border Radio (2002)
• Trouble With a Fountain Pen, The - Pat Maloney (2007)

• Until My Ink Dries Out - Adrian Roland (1964)

• Wear Down the Eraser - Kelly Fitzgerald (2005)
• When I Write the Book - The Firebrands (1995)
• Who Wrote the Book of Love? - The Monotones (1958)
• With Pen in Hand - J.D. King (2008)
• Write it in a Book - The Black and White Years (2008)
• Write Me a Story - Jim Hinde (2005)
• Write My Story - Air Five (2007)
• Write This Down - George Strait (1999)
• Written All Over My Heart - The Moffatts (1998)
• Written Apology, A - The Dollar Canon (2000)
• Written Guarantee - The Owen Bradley Quintet (1950)
• Written in Stone - Daryl Hall (1993)
• Written in the Stars - Blackmore's Night (2001)
• Written Letter, The - The Carlisle Brothers (1931)
• Written on the Wind - Roger Daltrey (1977)
• Writing on the Wall, The - Adam Wade (1961)

• Yes, it's Written All Over Your Face - Bobby Marchan (1962)

Songs about Paper

• Black Paper Roses - Dixie Lee Innes (1972)
• Blank Sheet of Paper - Don Schlitz (2001)
• Brown Paper Bag - Delaney Bramlett (2001)
• How Can I Write on Paper What I Feel in My Heart? - Reeves (1962)
• I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins - Doc Hopkins (1944)
• It's Only a Paper Moon - Nat King Cole (1945)
• Kisses on Paper - Teresa Brewer (1952)
• Lines on the Paper - Kate Wolf (1977)
• Little Piece of Paper, A - The Peppers (1963)
• Little Scraps of Paper - Doye O'Dell (1963)
• Paper Airplane - LaCosta (1976)
• Paper Castles - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers (1957)
• Paper Cup - The Fifth Dimension (1967)
• Paper Cups - Kathy Barnes (1975)
• Paper Doll - The Mills Brothers (1960)
• Paper Heart - Cathy Carr (1962)
• Paper in Fire - John Mellencamp (1987)
• Paper Kite - Terry Fell (1958)
• Paper Man - Noah's Ark (1967)
• Paper Mansions - Dottie West (1967)
• Paper Plane - Status Quo (1972)
• Paper Playhouse - Kay Austin (1978)
• Paper Roses - Marie Osmond (1973)
• Paper Rosie - Gene Watson (1977)
• Paper Sun - Traffic (1967)
• Paper Thin - John Hiatt (1988)
• Paper Wings - Gillian Welch (1996)
• Pen and Paper - Jerry Lee Lewis (1964)
• Pencil and Paper - Adam Wade (1964)
• Pictures on Paper - Jeris Ross (1975)
• Plastic Trains, Paper Planes - Susan Raye (1973)
• Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison (1964)
• Stray Paper - The Carbines (2004)
• Words on Paper - Brian Hyland (1967)
• Yesterday's Newspapers - Ed Rambeau (1966)