Writer Quotes

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

--C.S. Lewis

“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the people he cannot see. The writer as conductor also gets to compose the music and play all of the instruments, a task less formidable that it seems. What it requires is the conscious practice of providing an extraordinary experience for the reader, who should be oblivious to the fact that he is seeing words on paper.”
Sol Stein, On Writing, p. 8

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
–Henry David Thoreau

"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there, and the route back to our original place."

--Toni Morrison

"A writer begins by breathing life into his characters. But if you are very lucky, they breathe life into you."

--Caryl Phillips

This afternoon I discovered a blog titled simple WriterQuotes. Since inspiration is key to writing I thought that I would share the best quotes that I found on this blog. Hopefully these will encourage you.

Addendum:

In the introduction, I neglected to mention that during the 2006-2007 school year the English Society will be publishing a quarterly literary magazine, which would be printed and distributed before the end of each term. In previous years Cornerstone University had a literary magazine but it was discontinued, largely because of the small number of contributors. We are hopeful that Cornerstone University is now capable of maintaining a literary magazine. Beginning in mid-summer and during the school year the English Society will be accepting submissions from students, alumni, and staff.

Our hope is that this blog will be a means of gathering submisssions or at least connecting with possible contributors so that the literary magazine will be a success. Interested participants may also become a part of the committee which will select the stories to be published in the magazine. Keep checking through out the summer for more information.

Lindsey Renee

English Society President

An Introduction

Though the Cornerstone University English Society was not very active during the last school year, we hope to change that during the coming 2006-2007 school year. Currently, the society plans to host holiday readings on CU's campus and to offer a weekly writing group.

During these summer months the society would like to connect individuals who would be interested in the English Society writing group through this blog. The blog provides an opportunity for aspiring authors to share their work, ideas or inspiration with other authors. All interested participants may post short stories, book reviews or any other thought provoking entries they would like and will be able to recieve comments from their fellow writers.

I am very excited about this blog and the many possibilities that it has to offer. Though there is one thing missing: a good title. The CU English Society Writing Group is both wordy and boring. Through the months of May and June we will be taking suggestions for an alternative title for both this blog (the site address will not change though, I promise) and for the actual Writing Group, which will being meeting in late August/early September. If we have enough contributions than by mid-June we may hold an election for the best possible name.

Also, if you are concerned as to what the intention of this blog is my suggestion is that you visit http://www.burnsidewriterscollective.com/. Though this website is much more elaborate it can give you an idea of what the eventual goal of this site is.

As this blog gains readers and contributors we will begin to post online opportunities for writing contests and other writing opportunities that we stumble across.

Lindsey Renee
English Society President