Author J.S.Smelker
MY FAVORITE WRITING QUOTES FROM AUTHORS
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
– Stephen King
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
– Ernest Hemingway
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
– Somerset Maugham
It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C. J. Cherryh
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
– Robert Benchley
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
– Ray Bradbury
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs
People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.
– Harlan Ellison
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
– William Faulkner
Writing is its own reward.
– Henry Miller
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
– Larry Niven
MY FAVORITE WRITING QUOTES FROM AUTHORS
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
– Stephen King
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
– Ernest Hemingway
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
– Somerset Maugham
It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C. J. Cherryh
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
– Robert Benchley
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
– Ray Bradbury
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs
People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.
– Harlan Ellison
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
– William Faulkner
Writing is its own reward.
– Henry Miller
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
– Larry Niven
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Favorite Spooky Movies & Shows
The Village (2004) Dark was the Night (2014) Tremors (1990) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Hocus Pocus (1993) The Crazies (2010) Super 8 (2011) Stranger Things (2016-2025) Ghostbusters I & II (1984/1989) A Quiet Place (2018) Monster House (2006) What We Do In The Shadows (TV) Beetlejuice (1988) Werewolves Within (2021) Predator (1987) Fright Night (1985 & 2011) Pay the Ghost (2015) Wolf Like Me (Show 2022) Hubie Halloween (2020) The Munsters (Show 64-66) The Thing (1982) 30 Days of Nights (2007) Joy Ride (2001) Practical Magic (1998) The Wolfman (2010) Dark Night of the Scarecrow (TV CBS 1981) Halloween (1978) Zombieland (2009) I am Legend (2007) The Lost Boys (1987) The Raven (2012) Dracula: Untold (2014) It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (TV 1966) Shutter Island (2010) Trick R Treat (2007) UnderWorld Series (2003) Twilight Zone (TV 59-64) |
MY FAVORITE STORIES & READS
Paddle Your Own Canoe - Nick Offerman (Yes, from Parks and Rec) Capital Gaines - Chip Gaines (Yes, that guy from HGTV "Fixer Upper") A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The Greatest Generation - Tom Brokaw The Greatest Generation Speaks - Tom Brokaw October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween Wicked Witches: An Anthology of New England Horror Writers Dark World - Zak Bagans (from Ghost Adventures) Andy & Don (Andy Griffith Show) - Daniel de Vise Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other... - Bob Welch Essential Manners for Men - Peter Post The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl (Nirvana & Foo Fighters) Small Horrors - Darcy Coates Trick or Treat - Lisa Morton The Handbook for the Recently Deceased (HA!! BeetleJuice!!) More to come... MY FAVORITE PODCASTS Monsters Among Us Unexplained Encounters Tales From the Break Room Hillbilly Horror Stories Graveyard Tales Weird Darkness Paranormal Mysteries Preserve Halloween Podcast More to come... |