Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
– John Cleese
Category: Quotable
Quotable 225
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Quotable 224
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself.
– J.K. Rowling
Quotable 223
Don’t ask who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
– Giorgos Seferis
Quotable 222
All you can do is try to write as well as you can.
– Harold Pinter
Quotable 221
Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté.
– Margaret Atwood
Quotable 220
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It’s also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.
– Suze Orman
Quotable 219
Becoming a writer to be a brand name is like doing law solely to prepare for your selection to the supreme court.
– Justine Larbalestier
Quotable 218
Write what should not be forgotten.
– Isabel Allende
Quotable 217
Basically, fiction is about people. You can’t write fiction about ideas.
– Theodore Sturgeon