A Monologue: Quotes

Maybe I’ll just write quotes for the rest of my life. Yeah, that’s a thought. I will make my living writing quotes and people will quote me all the time and when they do, the people listening will say

"Hey! That’s pretty smart/cute/funny/poignant! What else did she write?"

And the person who quoted my magnificent self will say "Nothing!

She just wrote quotes."

It’s not a bad idea, you know. Quotes are a noble part of the written language. Being quoted is an honor for any writer. It’ll be the best of both worlds: I’ll have the name recognition of being quoted, and the people to whom I am being quoted can be intrigued yet don’t have to go through the tedious process of reading my longer works.

They will not have to read a word I write.

Which is, again, a plus. I won’t have to waste my precious time actually writing pages, and they won’t have to waste their precious time reading pages. We will all save time.

Time is money, you know. And by not writing novels, I’ll make more money because I’ll spend more time writing quotes. Dozens and dozens and hundreds of quotes that I will throw out into the universe for the impatient public to consume.

They don’t have time to read anything I would write. The public does not want to pore through pages of an author trying to convey meaning. Quotes, by their very nature of being quoted, are nothing but meaning. Why should I take time trying to find meaning when I can create a thousand different importances in a thousand different quotes?

So yes, I think writing quotes would be a noble and efficient profession.

I will just write quotes. Because no one wants to waste time reading anything longer than that and I don’t want to waste time writing anything no one wants to read.