The creative writer is compulsively concrete. His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should flit past the windows after dark, not fill the rooms. The moment anyone tries to make poems or stories of ideas alone he is at the edge of absurdity; he can only harangue, never interest and persuade, because ideas in their conceptual state are simply not dramatic. They have to be put into the form of people and actions. . Wallace Stegner
Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write this? Did I have that insight? Sometimes you know something...
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Chloe Thurlow
Writing doesn’t get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, you’re probably still learning the craft. You haven’t perfected your style or landed upon your “voice.” You haven’t learned to analyze your writing with a critical eye, to rip it...
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Darynda Jones
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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Ernest Hemingway
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
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Chigozie Obioma
And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a world that seems complete in itself; she builds...
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Anthony Doerr
More Quotes By Wallace Stegner
Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people...
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
