Where Agatha Christie found her plots QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Years ago I got my plots in the tub, the old-fashioned, rim kind — just sitting there thinking, undisturbed, and lining the rim with apple cores. Agatha Christie
Why you need to know the end of your story when you write the beginning – Edgar Allen Poe QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Nothing is more clear than that every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before any thing be attempted with the pen. It is only with the … Continue reading
The pain and pleasure of writing a novel Dean Koontz QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled. Dean Koontz
Why we turn to fiction…Arundhati Roy QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Fiction is truth. You turn to fiction when you can’t express reality with footnotes and evidence and reportage. Arundhati Roy
A lot of things are easier and more fun than writing, says Stephen Sondheim QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
I write with soft pencils because you get to spend more time sharpening the pencil, which is easier and more fun than writing. STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Get used to living with recurring, crippling doubt…Paul McVeigh QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
…get used to rejection. It happens to us all. I know writers who got rejected even after 4 or 5 novels already published. You will also have to get used … Continue reading
Beautiful art…was created by human beings just like you… Maya Angelou QUOTE FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, … Continue reading
…Delete-delete-delete, all the way back to the very line where last you cared…Lydia Millet QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Yes, you need to put words on the page, but to qualify for the page those words must always interest you. For if not you, then whom? Writing should not … Continue reading
“You just have got to be brave enough to start…” Tom Stoppard QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that’s the way I was thinking. … Continue reading
A 10 point smorgasbord of writing advice for Christmas QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
If you wrote down all the suggestions for writing well from successful writers, and tossed them into a hat, the top 10 would look something like this: 1. Write every … Continue reading
…how to choose the form your story will take…Doris Lessing QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It’s not that you say, ‘I want to write a … Continue reading
…be your most powerful self…Laini Taylor QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. … Continue reading
“…to express myself with words that you can chew…” Dario Fo QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
It is from Beolco Ruzzante that I’ve learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various … Continue reading
…Picnic baskets and modern art…Tom Stoppard QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard
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