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For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve don

Author: Shandy L. Kurth
Quote #347226

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

Author: Wally Lamb
Quote #347225

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

Author: C. Kennedy
Quote #347224

Most—but not all—of the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were un

Author: Sterling Lord
Quote #347223

I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of strippe

Author: Sheila Hageman
Quote #347222

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we

Author: Umberto Eco
Quote #347221

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and ref

Author: John Geddes
Quote #347220

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it

Author: John Geddes
Quote #347219

I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack

Author: Kim Cormack
Quote #347218

I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behi

Author: Guy Kawasaki
Quote #347217

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you g

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Quote #347216

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed

Author: Henri Matisse
Quote #347215

...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what

Author: John Geddes
Quote #347214

... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it

Author: John Geddes
Quote #347213

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing th

Author: John Geddes
Quote #347212

I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go o

Author: Paul Auster
Quote #347211

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a

Author: Jonathan Carroll
Quote #347210

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Author: Julia Cameron
Quote #347209

Writingis therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time.The process of

Author: Guy Kawasaki
Quote #347208

Steven wrote to me today, saying, 'Don't you feel like sticking your head out of the window and yell

Author: Russell T. Davies
Quote #347207

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it

Author: John Geddes
Quote #347206

To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around

Author: Christopher Stocking
Quote #347205

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs

Author: Andromeda Edison
Quote #347204

I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostl

Author: Martijn Benders
Quote #347203

There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story,

Author: Malcolm Cowley
Quote #347202

I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.

Author: E.W. Hornung
Quote #347201

For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into M

Author: David G. Allen
Quote #347200

She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the

Author: Virginia Woolf
Quote #347199

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a

Author: Guy Kawasaki
Quote #347198

If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #347197

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Author: Guy Kawasaki
Quote #347196

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishi

Author: Guy Kawasaki
Quote #347195

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

Author: Lian Hearn
Quote #347194

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed

Author: Jeanette Winterson
Quote #347193

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down o

Author: Hal Zina Bennett
Quote #347192

The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smel

Author: Ray Rhamey
Quote #347191

The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of you

Author: Mike Carey
Quote #347190

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?

Author: Stephen Fry
Quote #347189

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

Author: Ken Scott
Quote #347188

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutab

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Quote #347187

I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.

Author: Steven Wright
Quote #347186

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent y

Author: Haruki Murakami
Quote #347185

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all

Author: Roger Ebert
Quote #347184

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your l

Author: Ken Scott
Quote #347183

In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought

Author: Ray Bradbury
Quote #347182

Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter,

Author: Mark Pettinger
Quote #347181

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Author: Iain Banks
Quote #347180

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If

Author: Larry Correia
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