“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” WritingBookReadingNovelHeroDrinkBeerGood BookWriting AdviceWriting A BookBook ReadingGood WritingGood WritersWriters And WritingNovel WritingBook WritingBooks And ReadingWriting By WritersReading And WritingWriting From The HeartWriters ReadingWriting And ReadingInspiration To WriteInspiring WritingBad WritingWriting From Famous AuthorsWriting ShortReading Good BooksShort WritingGood Authors Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.” WritingEndsStoriesUseHappensPastLyingFoundVoiceMemoriesNovelMonthsColdHappeningsWindowOriginalsIntentionSuitsLandscapeToneSlipsWhatever HappensNovel WritingCold Blooded Author:J. L. Carr
“Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.” KnowsWritingNovelExhaustingNovel Writing Author:C. S. Forester
“Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.” WritingStillsNovelNovel Writing Author:Richard Power
“Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.” WritingNovelAddictionHeroinNovel WritingHeroin Addiction Author:James N. Frey
“Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.” ShouldWritingNumbersCasesNovelColorFairsJournalismPrimariesJournalistConfusedNovel WritingPrimary Colors Author:Joe Klein
“Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.” WritingLevelsNovelExpressionDirectorsBeatsNovel WritingMovie Director Author:Tom Perrotta
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.” WritingIdeasStoriesPastWalksWrittenThousandFiction WritingWriters And WritingFiction WritersNovel WritingWriting FictionWriting By WritersGreat WritingStory WritingWriting StoriesCreativity And WritingInspiration To WriteFamous WritersStory WritersWriting Every DayWriting Scripts Author:Orson Scott Card
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” WayWritingWholeNightJourneyDrivingFogWriting AdviceGreat WritersFiction WritingWriters And WritingFiction WritersNovel WritingWriting FictionWriting By WritersCreativity And WritingInspiration To WriteHeadlightsWriting From Famous AuthorsRagtimeLearning How To Write Author:E. L. Doctorow
“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.” WantWritingTryingFirstsDoeStoriesFormNovelFailingPoetNovelistsShort StoryNovel Writing Author:William Faulkner
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” InspirationalWritingStoriesWomenPowerfulGreaterBearsSocial JusticePositivityStorytellingAfrican AmericanMoving OnHard TimesAgonyBlack WomenInsperationalLoving LifeHave CourageRemember YouRemembers YouGreat WritersWriters And WritingTelling StoriesNovel WritingWriting By WritersGreat WritingWise WomenCagedAgonizingCreativity And WritingPhenomenal WomanInspiration To WriteInspirational CourageAspiring WritersCourage To LoveFamous WritersInspiring WritingStory WritersCourage To ChangeCreative WritersWriting From Famous AuthorsLove And CourageStory PeopleCaged BirdsI Know Why The Caged Bird SingsDefeated YouRemembering HerTelling Your StoryEveryone Has A StoryUntold StoriesCreating Stories Author:Maya Angelou
“Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.” WritingCharacterStoriesBigsInterestMy OwnNovelStruggleBedBoredNovel WritingChunks Author:Aimee Bender