It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
– Edouard Manet
Category: Quotable
Quotable 355
Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.
– William Zinsser
Quotable 354
Writing a book is like playing a chess game against your conscious, your subconscious, and your doubt all at the same time.
– Victoria Schwab
Quotable 353
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
– Robert Frost
Quotable 352
Word choice stands at the center of the practice of writing. This is particularly true for poetry, and even more so for haiku. Simply put, the choice of a word can make or break a poem.
– David Grayson
Quotable 351
Folk legend, fairytale, myth are thought of as escapist, but in reality they’re not – they’re distilled metaphor and truth.
– Alan Garner
Quotable 350
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
– Terry Pratchett
Quotable 349
Respect the way characters may change once they’ve got 50 pages of life in them.
– Rose Tremain
Quotable 348
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quotable 347
A cool thing about being a writer is it allows you to balance megalomaniacal resentment that your brilliance hasn’t received its due against unrelenting certainty that you are absolutely worthless.
– Saladin Ahmed