Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters’ theses.
STEPHEN KING
If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
"Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!…”
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever.
J.K. ROWLING
No one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, invented, except to get out of hell.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Don’t overwrite description in a story — you haven’t got time.
ELIZABETH SPENCER
Don’t talk about it; write.
RAY BRADBURY
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
CARLOS FUENTES
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
Only God gets things right the first time.
STEPHEN KING
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
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