A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaMots clés money books writing writers sense bookstore profit bookshops
A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaThose who can't, and can't teach, translate.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
Mots clés writing writers translation translators
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?"
They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.
Mots clés writers metaphor readers depth
Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.
Gillian FlynnGood style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.
Haruki MurakamiMots clés writers
The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.
Tim CampbellMots clés imagination writers
A painter,” he said, as though the word were an insult. “I’m a writer.”
“You’re a writer? I’m a writer.”
“What do you write?”
“Stories. Books. A book. Fiction.”
“Fiction. Pfft. That’s not writing.”
“What do you write?”
“I write the truth.”
“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to be factual to be true.”
“Says you. Have you been published?”
“As a matter of fact I have. My novel sold over 65,000 copies.”
“All to your mom.”
“My mom didn’t even know about it.
Mots clés writers
Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer.
Lori GoodwinMots clés writers authors writing-process
Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked.
"Seventeen, " I told her.
"Seventeen!" Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. "Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!
Mots clés writers
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