Home / Quotes / Quote by Jacob Gelt Dekker

Quote by Jacob Gelt Dekker

“Opportunities are always everywhere, learn to see and create them.”

Author

Jacob Gelt Dekker, born on April 22, 1948, is an individual whose profession and category are unknown. Detailed information about his life, achievements, and impact is limited. more

“To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.”

Source: Life, Law, and Letters: Essays and Sketches

“Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.”

World Writing Real Dies Cases Institutions Labels Shifting Neglected Treacherous

Author:James A. Baldwin

“He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.”

Writing Poetic License Poetic License

Author:Milton Berle

“A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.”

Writing Nonsense

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.”

Thinking Writing Wells Littles Poet

Author:Elizabeth Bishop

“In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.”

Want Should Writing Believe Stories Asks Fiction Reader Add Complicated Experiments Tales Admire Fantastic Prose Writing Fiction

Book:Twice Seven: Stories

Source: Twice Seven: Stories

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”

World Writing Suffering Next Hell Critics Rejection Publishers Writers And Writing Authorship Career Success Successful Writing

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

Quote by Jacob Gelt Dekker

Author

You May Also Like