“Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.” PeopleShouldWritingLongBookEnoughSeemsHalfNovelPagesImpressionGood EnoughEditingNot Good Enough Author:Fran Lebowitz
“So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.” YearsBookStoriesPagesSpringImpressionPleasantThank GodChaptersCharmingVioletInscriptionsMayflowerBook Of LifeVignettes Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.” Would BeNationsCausesFateEffectsEventsChangedReaderPagesGloryImpressionRomeExhaustedRepetitionHostilityPersia Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition
“It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.” PeopleWayMindTwoSimpleAttentionAudienceMinutesPagesPreparedImpressionPay AttentionFrame Of MindGags Author:Frank Caliendo
“Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.” WritingFirstsTwoImportantLiteratureDoorsWeekMinesPagesLettersImpressionMessTwo WeeksFirst ImpressionQueriesSales Pitch Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.” IfsArtRealSelfRealityTurnsResponsibilityVisionNovelAchieveReaderPagesIllusionCapacityLonelyPracticalsImpressionReceivingSensitivityObservingDistortionAssignments Book:On Writing Source: On Writing