Writers and Olympic athletes don’t have a lot in common – Paul Theroux Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure … Continue reading
The writer’s style – Robert Frost: Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. Robert Frost
Graham Greene on why short stories are perfect and novels aren’t – QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. … Continue reading
Short stories explode – novels smoke, says Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Short fiction seems more targeted – hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like … Continue reading
Elizabeth Goudge on what to read in times of trouble QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and readers)
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried … nothing is so warming and … Continue reading
Hemingway on what makes a writer – Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to … Continue reading
“…failure is what writers do.” Anne Enright QUOTES FOR WRITERS (AND PEOPLE WHO LIKE QUOTES)
I have no problem with failure – it is success that makes me sad. Failure is easy. I do it every day, I have been doing it for years. I … Continue reading
Five Quotes for Mother’s Day
…kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. … Continue reading
A Short Story is a like a knife…Michael Swanwick Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
A short story…can be held in the mind all in one piece. It’s less like a building than a fiendish device. Every bit of it must be cunningly made and … Continue reading
You can write the best Valentine Day’s message ever…
Instead of a writing quote this Sunday, here is a quotation that will help you be orginal and witty and sincere (and still sound like you) Use Woody Allen as … Continue reading
Seamus Heaney on falling in love with verbal music — Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
I was getting my first sense of crafting words and for one reason or another, words as bearers of history and mystery began to invite me. Maybe it began very … Continue reading
What to do with your manuscript when it’s finished – David Mitchell. Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Send the thing out and forget it. Quickly get to work on the next thing. Don’t sit by the phone or watch your email. Don’t hope. You’ve done a big … Continue reading
Sense the mood…see the shadows moving P.J.Harvey QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
When I’m writing a song I visualise the entire scene. I can see the colours, I can tell the time of day, I can sense the mood, I can see … Continue reading
Most stories we tell are under 500 words….Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Most stories we tell in real life are under 500 words. You’re at a party, everyone has a glass of wine, and suddenly you have the floor. You throw out … Continue reading
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