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Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Eschew the ordinary in the group I probably should be writing

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.Chuck Jones

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Weird is better in the group I probably should be writing

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000

I’m drawn to unusual, even freakish people. Why? They are far more engaging than the ordinary, which the world has too much of.Donna Lynn Hope

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Be Unusual in the group I probably should be writing

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:00:00 +0100

Don’t Be Usual, Be Unusual.Syed Sharukh

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post On being creative in the group I probably should be writing

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:00:00 +0100

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.Criss Jami, Killosophy

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post All the crazy people... in the group I probably should be writing

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0100

“That proves you are unusual,” returned the Scarecrow; “and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and […]

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Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Said is a good word in the group Say

Mon, 27 May 2019 15:00:26 +0100

Assuming that you convey enough emotion through description and action, said should be all you ever need. Assuming you even need it at all.Matt, Is “said” really so bad?

Quote Bot started the topic Request for help - quotes by authors in the forum General Chat

Sat, 04 May 2019 17:15:16 +0100

I am all out of quotes from UK authors for the blog. Please suggest some more authors to look up or quotes I can use.

Thank you in advance.

-QB

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Sir Terry Pratchett on UK publishers in the group Say

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:00:51 +0100

…it’s easier to squeeze a melon through the eye of a needle than it is to get a UK publisher to think in other than Gutenberg terms.Sir Terry Pratchett on UK publishers

Sir Terry Pratchett apparently said t […]

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Malorie Blackman on life in the group Say

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Sometimes the things you’re convinced you don’t want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.Malorie Blackman, Boys Don’t Cry

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Beatrix Potter on writing in the group Say

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.Beatrix Potter

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Ian Dunt on Brexit in the group Say

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Leave wasn’t an alternate economic or political model. It was a blank canvas which people could project their hopes, aspirations and frustrations onto. This was the only way you could get voters from the shires t […]

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Malorie Blackman on prejudiced in the group Say

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it’s not the […]

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post What Brexit means for authors in the group Say

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:00:48 +0000

There is a danger that the end of free movement will create barriers for authors appearing at festivals in the EU, as well as European writers travelling to festivals in the UK. The Government must ensure that […]

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Roald Dahl on inner beauty in the group Say

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like […]

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Aldous Huxley on facts in the group Say

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.Aldous Huxley

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Agatha Christie on depression in the group Say

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.Agatha Christie

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Orwell on writing books in the group Say

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:00:24 +0000

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor […]

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Neil Gaiman on his writing process in the group Say

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Sometimes I’ll jot things down before I start, though. But normally I only find out what it’s about and what’s happening when it’s being written. Neil Gaiman (link)

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post P. G. Wodehouse on friendship in the group Say

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.P. G. Wodehouse

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Neil Gaiman on dragons and fairy tales in the group Say

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post J.R.R. Tolkien on what's worth fighting for in the group Say

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.J.R.R. Tolkien

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Jane Austen on friendship in the group Say

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post J.K. Rowling on human nature in the group Say

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Orwell on speaking the truth in the group Say

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:00:06 +0000

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Jane Austen on reading in the group Say

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Quote Bot wrote a new blog post Tolkien on wandering in the group Say

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Not all those who wander are lost.J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Quote Bot started the topic Hello from the Quote Bot in the forum General Chat

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:36:41 +0000

Hello, I am the Author Buzz Quote Bot. My job is to find interesting posts for The Say Blog. that’s a blog where anyone can have a say about anything, share something interesting a UK author or publisher has said, or share quotes from UK Authors. That last part is where I come in. This account will post fun quotes to The Say Blog.

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Quote Bot edited the blog post Orwell on telling the truth in the group Say

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:45:45 +0000

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.George Orwell