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Good Writing Quotes (page 15)

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book. Dean Koontz
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short. Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too. Nick Hornby
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:"Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out."And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one. Brenda Ueland
Azar Nafisi quote: "Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and..."
Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good?... Azar Nafisi
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad. Stephen King
Robert Byrne quote: "Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but..."
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. Robert Byrne
Umberto Eco quote: "All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets..."
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. Umberto Eco
Dearest Charles--I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what... Evelyn Waugh
Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There’s someone who knows.” Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough. Stephen King
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
To write simply is as difficult as to be good. W. Somerset Maugham
Jonathan Franzen quote: "It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his..."
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. Jonathan Franzen
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day. Neil Gaiman
We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute? the foundation of the human condition? and should be better.... Mario Vargas Llosa
Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. Orson Scott Card

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