“Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. Ivana Trump, upon finishing her first novel. Funny how that stands almost direct opposition to the following: “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain
Thursday Quote: Samuel Butler
“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.” Samuel Butler
Thursday Quote: William Faulkner
“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put…
Thursday Quote: William Saroyan
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive,…
Thursday Quote: Tracy Kidder
“You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.” Tracy Kidder
Thursday Quote: Tad Williams
“…I discovered that if I trusted my subconscious, or imagination, whatever you want to call it, and if I made the characters as real and honest as I could, then no matter how complex the pattern being woven, my subconscious…
Thursday Quote: Brenda Ueland
“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten, –happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.” Brenda Ueland
Thursday Quote: Melissa Scott
“Writing isn’t generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing…
Thursday Quote: Ernest Hemingway (assisted by Joseph Hansen)
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the…
Thursday Quote: Isaac Asimov
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” Isaac Asimov