Novel Writing Quotes - Page 2

She meant you have to live a story for a time.''And?''And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?''Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.''Kind of the perfect question to answer in fiction.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

One thing an early-on writer has to learn, is to be comfortable with and responsive to critique. When five people in a group tell you this chapter sucks; don’t snap back at them with, “Sure, but it gets better in another 6 or 7 chapters!”Listen. – Thank them. – Consider.They can look from a fresh perspective, and catch things that you might be too close to see.But, you will also learn along the way that not everyone in a group of relative amateurs themselves, is going to catch everything, and there will be a few who seem to never understand much of anything.Some will always want paragraphs chopped down to explosive missiles of passion, while others are more used to long composite paragraphs that I myself find impossible to wade through.You may, once you have hit your full stride and power, feel comfortable telling a few of them, “Look. This isn’t a diner. I don’t take orders: ‘I’m gluten intolerant; he can’t do salt; she’s allergic to peanuts ...’“If what I offer is a salad bar, then No; I am not going to fry you up a cheesesteak!

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Some stories always remain incomplete, until you do not read them complete with heart <3

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.

I am often told that the model of balance for the novelist should be Dante, who divided his territory up pretty evenly between hell, purgatory, and paradise. There can be no objection to this, but also there can be no reason to assume that the result of doing it in these times will give us the balanced picture it gave in Dante's. Dante lived in the thirteenth century, when that balance was achieved by the faith of his age. We live now in an age which doubts both fact and value, which is swept this way and that by momentary convictions. Instead of reflecting a balance from the world around him, the novelist now has to achieve one from a felt balance inside himself.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting and considered novel.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. The Catholic fiction writer is entirely free to observe. He feels no call to take on the duties of God or to create a new universe. He feels perfectly free to look at the one we already have and to show exactly what he sees.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Action achieves ambition.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Throughout my career I’ve lived in constant fear that I wouldn’t be good enough, that I’d have nothing to say, that I’d be laughed at, humiliated—and I’m old enough to know that fear will follow me to the very last word I’ll ever write. As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I’m supposed to write—the grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don’t quite know it. But I trust I’ll begin to know it soon.

In a democracy government is the God.

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

Turn your thoughts to novel writing—narrative, let it be about what it will, is read, because the mind quietly acquiesces, and it requires no trouble to think about it. On your part it will demand much less care in the composition. Never mind improbabilities—put together a sufficient number of facts—the more unlikely the better. If you are too idle to choose the trouble of inventing, collect eight or nine of the most popular works of that sort; take a piece of one, and a piece of another, and put them together, only a little altered, just to disguise them: never mind whether what the painters call keeping, can in this motley assemblage be attended to; nobody thinks about that: sprinkle the whole plentifully with horrors of some sort or other, to stimulate the languid attention, and you will have a certainty of a sale at least among the circulating libraries, which, after all, is the principal sale that can be expected; for who buy novels?—Who indeed buy books at all in these times?

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

All worries are less with wine.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.