So looking through my old "Favorites" I came across this website of quotes about writing. Reading through them was inspirational, you might say, so I thought I'd put in my two-cents worth as if I were a writer who'd actually written anything to make people care what I had to say about writing. lol. A silly excercise, but I had fun and came up with quite a few things. Try it, it's a good time!
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I like to write about children because grown-up minds are so distracted with clutter. As a child I was more free to think about real things, but no one would believe I was thinking about real things because I was a child. I like to write for children because I believe them.

Some people write because they have something to say, some just because they like to hear themselves talk, some to explore their world, some to explore themselves, some to be immortalized... I don't have any such goal. Writers, it seems, have a contagious irritation of the brain, and having caught the itch I've made it my business to infect others. Sometimes I think I'm only in the system to perpetuate the system.

I get into trouble using big words. It's not that I'm trying to sound smart; my theory is that being larger they are heavier, and so sift down to the bottom where they are most accessible via mouth or pen.

I didn't love books first; it was stories first, and being a part of them. It all came from playing with my brother and sisters - usually playing stories we'd picked up from books, television, or movies. After having that kind of creative control I could never go back to simply reading books. I was spoiled.

As a child I figured books were for people who weren't lucky enough to have siblings.

A room of one's own is nice to have, but I think what one really needs to be a writer is a late rich uncle.

My mother's been a writer much longer than I have, but I'm still working on convincing her to put anything on paper.

If life were longer and I didn't have to eat I could write the easy, natural way I want to. As it is, it seems my unfortunate fate is to actually become disciplined.

All my favorite authors are dead, a quality I plan to one day emulate.

And speaking of blasts from the past, here is the pilot episode for an absolute classic of spy tv:



AOL video has a lot of other episodes too, so feel free to get addicted!

Point of interest: The fella who played Illya (the blond Russian near the beginning, a regular on the show) now plays Ducky on NCIS.