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“Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.”

Way Writing Littles Lying Bits Novel Deception Novel Writing

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

Should Writing Mind Lying Disease Philosophical Hypothesis

Book:The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

Source: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

“Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.”

Men Writing Believe Ends Lying

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.”

Knows Writing Two Lying Difficult Calling Commitment Resistance Oppression Rooted Nobility Refusal

Book:Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

Source: Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

“Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.”

Writing Firsts Hard Joy Lying Grind

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.”

People Knows Writing Mean Lying

Author:Eva Mendes

“Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.”

Writing Problem Lying Reading Learning Teaching Deeper Visible Initiative Reading And Writing

Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.”

Writing Doe Life Is Lying Energy Objects Draws Cells Instant Shock Viewers Boldness Anticipate Exhibits

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.”

Writing Age Young Lying Language Cases Forever Impossible Youth Tyranny Obedience Introducing Despotism Implicit

Book:The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

Source: The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

“People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.”

People Writing Believe Long Stills Lying Humanity Clear Tales Storyteller Illiterate

Author:Gunter Grass

“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”

Men Writing Character Lying Every Man

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!”

Knows Way Writing Persons Done Moments Truth Lying Desire Speak Deals Emotion Fiction Events Details Length Peculiar Packs Inventing Fiction Writers Devious

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.”

People Writing Country Lying Opinion Processing Short Sighted

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.”

Thinking Writing Whole Facts Lying Force Glory Lives Of Others

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.”

Ifs Men Writing Book Lying Mother Father Names Brother Praying Opposites Lust Denied Brutal Savages I Pray Maidens If There Is A God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.”

Should Writing Shows Lying Three Cases Humility Ads Resumes Obituary Write Your Own

Author:David Hayden

“I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.”

Thinking Writing Use Lying Pencils Typewriters Horizontal Lying Down

Author:Truman Capote

“The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.”

Writing Believe Lying Force Secret Style Speech Conscious Verbs Adjectives Nouns Pedigree Parts Of Speech

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.”

Feels Writing Heart Lying Ecstasy Anguish

Author:May Sarton

“Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.”

Writing Trying Doe Stories Lying Novel Details Untrue True Story Believable Good Lies

Author:Anne Tyler

“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.”

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.”

Feels Writing Humans Stills Lying Can Do Human Beings Wonderful Poet Duty Ordinary Wonderful Things

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.”

Writing Lying Hero Taste Pulse Quixotic

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.”

People World Writing Wells Political Lying Pay Comfortable Happenings Concern Claims Quaker

Author:Storm Jameson

“I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.”

Thinking Knows Writing Seems Lying Bed Essentials Sitting Chairs Hanging Out Daydreaming Dope Indolence Bed Time

Book:Conversations with Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley

“To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.”

Way Writing Character Bigs Lying Truth Is Being True Big Things

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.”

Writing Trying Life Is Lying Effort Fiction Memoir Delusion Justify Epic

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.”

Writing Mind Heart Mean Lying Stop Lying

Book:Telegraph Avenue then

Source: Telegraph Avenue then

“The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.”

Writing Lying Desire Fiction Roots Fiction Writing

Author:Lucy Poate Stebbins

“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.”

“Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.”

Writing Sometimes Lying Causes Mad Radio Headlines Bros

Author:Vince Staples

“All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.”

Writing Lying Sound Making Up

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.”

Writing Kind Ideas Lying Literature Honor Crafts Mystical Harbors Your Honor

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.”

Way Writing Ends Whole Lying Theory Pushing Flats Carpet Lumps

Author:Bruce Joel Rubin

“Beautiful Lies is a book every woman should read. Jennifer Strickland weaves the powerful story of her life throughout each chapter while emphasizing transformational truths from God's Word. Her vulnerability, exquisite writing style, and practical take-home applications make this book the ideal choice for personal or for small group use.”