Writers; yes you should write what you know. But you can change what you know at any point. Talk to different people. Read different books.
– Jay Stringer
Category: Quotable
Quotable 315
Never put off writing until you are better at it.
– Gary Henderson
Quotable 314
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.
– Duke Ellington
Quotable 313
Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story.
– Sarah Waters
Quotable 312
All I’ve done so far this week is change three characters’ genders and I still don’t know whether their current genitalia are permanent.
– J.K. Rowling
Quotable 311
I write as a reader, not knowing what the author will say next.
– Russell Edson
Quotable 310
As you grow older you realize that there are bad lines in King Lear and it has survived.
– Robert Gottlieb
Quotable 309
I’ve been working for 25 years now and I can probably bring near enough any story to a satisfactory resolution just because I’ve been doing this every day for 25 years – you get more confident in your ability to bring a story home. So you can ride bareback, and take more risks. That is something I have a great deal of fun with.
– Alan Moore
Quotable 308
The most helpful quality a writer can cultivate is self-confidence – arrogance, if you can manage it. You write to impose yourself on the world, and you have to believe in your own ability when the world shows no sign of agreeing with you.
– Hilary Mantel
Quotable 307
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words everybody needs an editor.
– Michael Crichton