All writing is a journey. You take the reader by the hand and you lead him somewhere. And you want to make sure he never lets go of your hand.
– Roger Ebert
Category: Quotable
Quotable 145
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
– Ernest Hemingway
Quotable 144
Writing is like sex; everyone thinks they can do it, but most people aren’t willing to devote the time and effort to be really amazing at it.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
Quotable 143
Decent grammar and punctuation isn’t that hard to master so if you can’t be bothered agents, publishers and other writers will be inclined to think you don’t care very much about writing after all.
– Alexia Casale
Quotable 142
Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling.
– Po Bronson
Quotable 141
All writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and of the heart.
– Martin Amis
Quotable 140
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Quotable 139
Come up with characters who have flaws, and let them fall on their faces every so often. … “Once upon a time they lived happily ever after” is not a story.
– Jenny Wingfield
Quotable 138
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly. Sometimes it is like drilling rock and blasting it out with charges.
– Ernest Hemingway
Quotable 137
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
– Sholem Asch