Writing Quotes
every man has his own story, his own agony("The Watcher O' The Dead")
The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.
Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.
Sometimes a night of over-eating leaves you hungry for something you can't name. An emptiness haunted me. An emptiness I didn't have a name for until I met Jeb. Now, I' m starving.
Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies
Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you’ve got to get your story straight!
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.
The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.
The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.
The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.
Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.
My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.
I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?
Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.
Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.”{Guy Gavriel Kay}
Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.
Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.
Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.
The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.
I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.
I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.
When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life
And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of findingthe perfect love?
Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.
I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
Our pendants glowed in unison and I understood that they represented us – Siren and human intertwined for eternity.
I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.