92 quotes found
“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty”
“A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even wh...”
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force...”
“When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are lo...”
“An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius”
“Don’t polish it forever, put it out there. At some point the changes aren’t improvements, they’re just changes.”
“Inspiration is the crèche of your brainchildren. If you don’t feed them, they will die, and never come back. So someone please think about the children!”
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.”
“What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.”
“Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.”
“Writing is a team sport.”
