You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
– Anne Lindbergh
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 415
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
– Henry Green
Quotable 414
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
Quotable 413
Haiku has this rather fantasmagorical property: that we always suppose we ourselves can write such things easily.
– Roland Barthes
Quotable 412
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
– Cheryl Strayed
Quotable 411
I think of fiction as a kind of inquiry into what it is to be a human and what it is to be a human now.
– Deborah Eisenberg
Quotable 410
There’s a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
– Tobias Wolff
Quotable 409
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
– P.D. James
Quotable 408
People are always coming up with new theories of the novel, but the main one is: Hold My Attention.
– Margaret Atwood
Quotable 407
Revising a story that you don’t believe in is like making out with somebody you’re not attracted to.
– Patrick Ryan