182 Quotes About Novel-writing

There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.

As a writer, you're the guy in the box. You're creating and you have these euphorias.

With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.

It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.

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

Aralarında hatırı sayılır bir mesafe olmasına rağmen; gökyüzü ikisini kuşatan bir şemsiyeydi adamın gözünde. O mavi, bulutlu örtü; yüreklerini kuşatan, bir arada olduklarını anımsatan bir çatıydı.

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.

It is said that in every Persian carpet there is an error created by the weaver to avoid making a mockery of the belief that only Allah is perfect. Writing a novel is the quest for a perfection every writer knows can never be achieved, but is obliged to "Set out to write a masterpiece.

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