“All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.” PeopleKnowsWritingLiteratureWrittenHappened Author:Norman MacCaig
“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsWellsMeanI CanImportantBookReasonDoneHappensEnjoyWrittenHugeAmountPlanningRelaxChaptersOutlines Author:R. L. Stine
“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.” IfsKnowsNeedsWritingFirstsOrderWaitingHoursKnownFateWrittenPagesSentencesInvisibleChaptersInvisible Things Author:Lynda Barry
“I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.” ThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsPersonsStoriesNovelWrittenThirdsShort StoryFirst PersonThird PersonThinking First Author:Tamora Pierce
“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.” IfsKnowsBookLastsTurnsDealsWrittenAskingDecadesGood Book Author:Stacy Schiff
“There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.” PeopleKnowsWellsChildrenBookHappensReadingWrittenCodeGiantsPhenomenonMidnightNobody KnowsWell WrittenDa Vinci Code Author:Denise Mina
“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingBelieveMayArtBookHardArtistWrittenHard WorkEasierWorks Of ArtGood WritingGreat BookGood Living Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children
“I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.” KnowsChildrenBookPlayStoriesInterestingWrittenClaimsChildren BookStory Book Author:Enid Blyton
“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBookHardDesireFunWrittenAmountCommitmentSticksHaving Fun Author:Ted Bell
“I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.” KnowsWantFeelsTryingKindHardNextChanceWrittenDirectToneTranslateFrontiers Author:Dana Fox
“I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.” KnowsWorldPhilosophyHeavenWrittenPerceive Author:Pam Gems