Novel Writing Quotes

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have mythic proportions.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming ideas and laboring over the production of sentences, paragraphs, scenes, dialogue, punctuation, and all the elements that go into writing a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a poem. When we're not writing, we're thinking, plotting, imagining, or editing, which can be far more tedious than cranking out first drafts.--Fire Up Your Writing Brain

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

Great losses are great lessons.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Simplicity saves strength.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and construct, in time, a novel? It seemed logical, but there was the matter of finding an idea and sustaining it. Only fire could do that. The fire of rebellion.Mario Vargas Llosa had not used the term “fire” exactly, but rather had discussed the presence of “seditious roots” that could “dynamite the world” the writer inhabited. He claimed that writing stories was an exercise in freedom and quarreling—out-and-out rebellion, whether or not the writer was conscious of it. And this rebellion, Vargas Llosa reminded his readers, was why the Spanish Inquisition had strictly censored works of fiction, prohibiting them for three hundred years in the American colonies.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

I was told, and indeed I saw several examples, that neither time nor place was much minded, and that I might hazard being equally careless of chronology and geography; but I piqued myself on having studied Aristotle, and scrupulously attended to the probabilities of time and place.

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his own creation He began to dictate notes for a new novel, "fragments of the book he imagines himself to be writing." As if he were now writing a novel of which his own altered consciousness was the dramatic center, he dictated a vision of himself as Napoleon and his own family as the Imperial Bonapartes....William and Alice he grasped with his regent hand, addressing his 'dear and most esteemed brother and sister.' To them, to whom he had granted countries, he now gave the responsibility of supervising the detailed plans he had created for 'the decoration of certain apartments, here of the Louvre and Tuileries, which you will find addressed in detail to artists and workment who take them in hand.' He was himself the 'imperial e

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Michael Palin : "I am sorry to interrupt you there Dennis, but he's crossed it out. Thomas Hardy here on the first day of his new novel has crossed out the only word he has written so far and he is gazing off into space. Ohh! Oh dear he's signed his name again."Graham Chapman: "It looks like Tess of the D'Urbervilles all over again."- Matching Tie and Handkerchief, "Novel Writing

Diet food is not a meal its a medicine.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

I'll call any length of fiction a story, whether it be a novel or a shorter piece, and I'll call anything a story in which specific characters and events influence each other to form a meaningful narrative. I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing. When they realize that they aren't writing stories, they decide that the remedy for this is to learn something that they refer to as "the technique of the short story" or "the technique of the novel." Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.“Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire,” Laura returned.“Writing for me,” Megan had typed.“I’ll write you a tea fortune.”“No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.