Writing Quotes - Page 52

There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional.

Diana Gabaldon

Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids

Diana Gabaldon

If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there—take it out or change it.

Diana Gabaldon

Don’t go overboard in avoiding “said.” Basically, “said” is the default for dialogue, and a good thing, too; it’s an invisible word that doesn’t draw attention to itself.

Diana Gabaldon

You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones.

Diana Gabaldon

You don’t need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you’ve written, you should be able to point to any given element—be that a line of dialogue, a descriptive phrase, a plot point—and say why it’s there.

Diana Gabaldon

As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag.

Diana Gabaldon

Don’t let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there’s something to say.

Diana Gabaldon

Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.

Diana Gabaldon

Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes.

Diana Gabaldon

If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it.

Diana Gabaldon

They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.

Shannon L. Alder

Our feelings are best articulated with words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our thoughts are great place of voyage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We write our deepest thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When I have fully executed this phase of my life, then I can begin a new chapter.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I will wholeheartedly perform my holy duties.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is the greatest solitude

Lailah Gifty Akita

The holiness of solitude is the gift of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Don Roff

Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves is both unbearable and the commonest thing in the world — it happens to everybody. In the morning light one can write breezily, without the slight acceleration of one’s pulse, about what one cannot contemplate in the dark without turning in panic to God. In the dark one truly feels that immense sliding, that turning of the vast earth into darkness and eternal cold, taking with it all the furniture and scenery, and the bright distractions and warm touches, of our lives. Even the barest earthly facts are unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal death. Writing, in making the world light — in codifying, distorting, prettifying, verbalizing it — approaches blasphemy.

John Updike

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Monica Ali

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

George Orwell

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Sara Sheridan

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

Sara Sheridan

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

Nirav Sanchaniya

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

Álvaro de Campos

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

Edward Hirsch

Tell me something wonderful," he said to Dane. "Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep.""You're always writing one of your plays on the phone," said Dane."I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime.""It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea.""Ah," said Harry.

Lorrie Moore

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

Criss Jami

Am I still writing? Unthinkable not to. In the very darkest night the words were like shiny pebbles. They caught the light of the moon and stars and reflected it back. One word among them that shone especially brightly. Simplicity. I would approach it, stepping softly, regard it from all sides, finally pick it up, enchanted by it, recognize that its enchantment lay in its shine, its pure meaning. Simplicity. To simply be there. Simply keep going. The longer I kept going, the easier it was to see how beautiful, simply beautiful, it is to be here. I would like to write about how this word shines. I'd like to write about the simplest things.

Milena Michiko Flašar

She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.

S.A. Tawks

I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need,and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.

Christopher Priest

There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication.There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.

Christopher Priest

Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.For they are the ones who hide the most sadness—.

A.R. Von

So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life —of so many more than we think—can never be explained at all.

Graham Swift

I don't write to escape reality, but to show others how to better embrace it. ~ KAL

Keturah Lamb

People believe in everything, except the reality.

Min Kim

People believe in everything except the reality.

Min Kim

Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.

Elena Ferrante

Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the way we all know things should be—without suggesting that’s how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage that declares itself a mirage, yet compels us to faith through its beauty. Good fiction is the dream that’s too good to be true, so perfect and symmetrical that it gives itself away every time. But it doesn’t trick you into suspending your disbelief by trying to look anything like reality. Good fiction makes you acutely, painfully aware of your disbelief, and makes you believe anyway. And when it’s done well—when it’s done right—good fiction is more real than reality.

P.S. Baber

Objectives are only words written on paper without passion and desire

W. T. Albright

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.

Pushpa Rana

If writing is your passion, write and don’t let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don’t need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.

Bindu Adai

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Criss Jami

That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.

Rachel Cusk

I have fallen in love with writing, unknowingly. Instead of thinking whether people will like what I write or not, I decide to write only for one person- myself! I told myself that ‘I as an author is going to entertain I as an audience.’ And everything changed that day!When you find your passion, don’t succumb to the pressure of succeeding.Follow your passion just for yourself and for the sheer joy of it. You will see amazing things will follow- that’s a guarantee.

Vishwas Mudagal

i am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit’s another wayfor meto be in tears.

Sanober Khan

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

Sanober Khan

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

Jenim Dibie

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Fennel Hudson

I write to express and I shop to destress

Anamika Mishra

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

Kristyn Van Cleave

Written words are divine footprints on earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

Rudy Francisco

You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.

Shannon L. Alder

I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing!I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit, awe-inspiring-words, to the souls longing for it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You must begin writing your life book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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