Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
– Raymond Carver
Category: Quotable
Quotable 185
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
– Catherine Drinker Bowen
Quotable 184
Fiction is dangerous because it shows you that the world doesn’t have to be like the one you live in.
– Neil Gaiman
Quotable 183
Novels and stories don’t write themselves. Ass in chair, fingers on keyboard, repeat as necessary is the best method I know.
– Brian Keene
Quotable 182
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
– E. L. Doctorow
Quotable 181
Nothing will teach you how to write more than writing. I’m still learning with every book.
– Charlaine Harris
Quotable 180
Any creative pursuit is like solving an endless puzzle. You don’t know where to start because there are no edges. So, you start with the two things in front of you that fit together, and then build off of it.
– Frank Chimero
Quotable 179
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
– Karl Kraus
Quotable 178
Stories are a fundamental human form of thought.
– Iris Murdoch
Quotable 177
Above all, give us characters we will carry with us after meeting them. Give us people we will remember as if they were real.
– Silas House