Good Quotations on Writers and Writing - Program Description for Online Ordering

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GOOD QUOTATIONS ON WRITERS AND WRITING entertains and educates. You'll find well-turned phrases and loads of useful advice from writers, editors, publishers, poets and critics. It contains 1,378 carefully selected quotes, quips, observations, opinions and insights from over 650 of the world's greatest authors - classical and modern. It's a veritable treasury of valuable information about all aspects of the literary life.

The material is conveniently organized into eight subjects: Books, Critics, Poets, Poetry, Publishers, Reading, Writers and Writing. Each subject is consistently divided into eight sections including Positive, Negative, Advice and Jokes. As in all of our newer programs, whenever possible, individual quotations are arranged to create a dialogue.



   To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
   No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the
   flea, though many there be that have tried it.

                                  Herman Melville (1819-1891)

   They say great themes make great novels...but what these
   young writers don't understand is that there is no greater
   theme than men and women.

                                      John O'Hara (1905-1970)

GQWW uses the proven Idea Savings Bank engine. You can add, edit and delete records. In fact, anyone who can fill out an index card can enter, organize and manipulate index-card-size blocks of text such as quotes, research notes, speech themes, clippings, documents, writing ideas or plans. All entries are automatically indexed six ways. Now, you can even use Window's clipboard to import external text into the database - no retyping.

System Requirements:
Works on any IBM or compatible PC running a 32 bit Version of Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista, etc.) with about 4.0 megabytes of free disk space.