“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingStillsI CanStoriesLastsCoursesLinesHonestPossibilityFinishedRewritingFoolproof Author:Amy Hempel
“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWritingYearsWellsI CanTwoBookHelpingHonestBecomingFinished Author:John Sandford
“Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.” IfsWritingWholeWorstHonestToolsChestsTribesWriting PoetryHonest Work Author:Walt Whitman
“We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.” PeopleMenWorldWritingChildrenDiesVisionBreakHonestDiedBeing HonestAttractiveMen WomenUtopianAttractive Man Author:Neil Gaiman
“Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.” WayNeedsWritingArtistHonestNo MoneyFeesAdmissionGet MoneyGraffiti Author:Banksy
“The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.” MenWritingStatesGovernmentFormFatherTermDemocracyHonestStudentsHe ManSeriousRepublicanConstitutionIndependenceInstitutionsHistoricalRecallsAmerican HistoryDeclarationFoundingInfluentialOur Founding FathersDeclaration Of Independence Author:Clarence Manion
“The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.” WritingHonestDeterminedAccurateIntroducingLegislationReignOlafAnkh Book:The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.” WritingHeartChanceIssuesRiskEffectsHonestCoreBeing HonestAssumptionPushingExploringIntrigueTake A ChanceTaking RisksPush Yourself Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.” MenWorldWritingTogetherForeverHonestLettersSentencesChanging The WorldMeaninglessJudgedWorthlessHonest Man Author:Paul Morabito
“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.” IfsShouldWritingQualityAudienceHonestPrayingFactorsCraftsBeginnersReadership Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir