167 quotes found
“You’re allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character.”
“I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.”
“Lots of times I’m not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.”
“Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is ...”
“Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.”
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...”
“Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.”