“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.” – J. Aleksandr Wootton “Create a character with an obsession, then follow.” – Ray Bradbury “When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thingContinue reading “5 Great Quotations about Storytelling”
Category Archives: Quotes about Writing
Five Great Quotations about Writing Talent
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance – that is to throw awayContinue reading “Five Great Quotations about Writing Talent”
Five Great Quotations about What is a Writer
“The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.” – John Lanchester “Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.” – Agatha Christie “We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.” – Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith “By his very profession, a seriousContinue reading “Five Great Quotations about What is a Writer”
Five Great Quotations about the Muse
“(The) muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the language is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as though the universe is myContinue reading “Five Great Quotations about the Muse”
Five Great Quotes about Writing What You Know
“I don’t want you to write about what you know, because you don’t know anything. I don’t want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma… I’m getting a little tired of ‘my life story as fiction’. Please don’t tell me about your little life — is there nothing larger? More important?” – Toni Morrison “Tell theContinue reading “Five Great Quotes about Writing What You Know”
Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Writers
“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot…and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.” – Gerard de Marigny “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” – Kurt Vonnegut “…read a lot and write. Don’t worry if you don’tContinue reading “Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Writers”
Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Authors
“The process of becoming a writer involves discovering how to use the accumulated wisdom of our guild, all those tricks of the storytelling trade that have evolved around the campfire over the past five or ten or fifty thousand years. Others can show what those tricks are. But only you can make a writer out ofContinue reading “Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Authors”