“When we begin studying the person, the real child, we must serve who he is, not fit him into our schedules or plans. Part of this is allowing him play.”
(For the Children’s Sake 25)
Archive for the ‘Copywork Quotations’ Category
On Writing
Writing is thinking on paper.
William Zinsser
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
E. M. Forster
The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
Friederich Nietzsche
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
William Faulkner
A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.
Sidney Sheldon
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
Anne Lamott
Poetry for copywork: Lewis Carroll
The Crocodile
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!
Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is still best to be honest and truthful, to make the most of what we have, to be happy with simple pleasures, and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Don’t miss The Wonderful World of Disney’s six part series of “Little House on the Prairie” beginning March 26.
