182 Quotes About Novel-writing

«Escribir bien cuesta. Por escribir bien entiendo decir con la máxima simplicidad las cosas esenciales.»

Sometimes it takes time for the chapter to churn.

Every chapter is an adventure.

It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.

Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.

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.

Novel-writing has in one respect an affinity to the drama—that time and distance are required to soften for use the harsher features that may be exhibited from real life; that it was almost impossible to bring forward events without touching on their causes; and that any tendency to political discussion, however liberal or applicable, was not to be tolerated in a sort of work which people took up with no other design than to be amused at the least possible expence of thought.

In prose, when you wrote something, it's symphonic… There's something ethereal in that process that's euphoric.

The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.