Quotes By Author: Dr. Seuss
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“Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don’t always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive…. Virtually every page is a cliffhanger–you’ve got to force them to turn it.”~”
“It has often been saidthere’s so much to be read,you never can cramall those words in your head.So the writer who breedsmore words than he needsis making a chorefor the reader who reads.That’s why my belief isthe briefer the brief is,the greater the sighof the reader’s relief is.And that’s why your bookshave such power and strength.You publish with shorth!(Shorth is better than length.)”
“If you want to catch beasts you don’t see every day,You have to go places quite out of the way,You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”
“Everything stinks till it’s finished.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”