“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ~~ Marcus AureliusReaders are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ~~ Anthony Burgess
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is creative reading as well as creative writing ~~ Emerson
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. ~~ Kingsley Amis
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ~~ Charles Caleb Colton
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~~ Harold Acton
Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers. ~~T.S. Eliot
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~~Don Marquis
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. ~~Juvenal
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. ~~ Samuel Johnson
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, and quote is "People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad ~~ Emerson". - I am a man from Maine (United States)
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- I am in the groups Drink Moxie And See Yemassee As God, Hugh Wyles favourites, The Loaf That Loves You
- I have 19,466 comments, 54 contests, 4 addlines, 1 column, 528 poems, 9 journals
My Lists
- 01. Niggling: (A Yemassee's Dozen)
- 02. Claptrap: (A 2nd Yemassee's Dozen)
- 03. A 3rd Yemassee's Dozen
- 04. Taradiddles (Fiction)
- 05. Bosh (Poetry)
- 06. Kickshaw (Favorite Poems)
- 07. Bonkers For Bonko
- 08. Histrionics With Bubbles
- 09. Dreaming Of Debbie McGee
- 10. Dido (Humor)
- 11. Rummy: (Odd)
- 12. Trumpery (About Writers & Writing)
- 13. Triskaidekaphobia (Satire)
- 14. Schlocky (Turtle Diaries)
- 15. Incendia (Jenny On Fire)
- 16. Wish-Wash (Miscellaneous)
- 17. Tripe: (Liber Amoris)
- 18. Gewgaw: (Bridges)
- 19. Foofaraw: Story Fragments(TBA)
- 20. Cockamamie (Parts Of The Whole)
- 21. Piddling (Supper With Ima)
- 22. Gobbledygook: Revised Fiction
- 23. Bilgewater: My Old Author Pages
- 25. TBA
My Poetry
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It's my finest work. I have wrung the last ounce out of my muse, but I am sure you will agree with me, "this is fantastic!"
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This is a work of fiction and is in no way meant to accurately portray any person or persons living or dead.
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A Shocking Tale Of Horror!
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A Shocking Tale Of Horror!11 lines, 62 comments, October 3. In Gold Winning Poems Yet To Win, Sheer Brilliance, Genius At Work
My other items
- Column: Biographies I've written for Old Poetry at allpoetry
Posted just so I can keep track of them all. - Column: Biographies at allpoetry
Biographies I've written for Old Poetry
My journal entries
Guest Book
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pixiestix : The day after... on November 27
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Sudo Nimh on November 26what is it about red buttons labelled 'panic' that compels us to press them?..if only they all came equipped with waterfalls!

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Snowbear on November 26Happy Thanksgiving!
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Mari Goes on November 24I have a pair of socks just like yours
if those are your feet 


