Crafts Quotes

929 quotes by 710 authors

The secret is to start a story near the ending. — Chris Offutt
Art is elimination of the unnecessary. — Waldo Salt
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,… — Virginia Woolf
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances. — John Steinbeck
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old… — Norman Mailer
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story. — Roy Eldridge
Are all your stars shining? — J D Salinger
Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing. — Gordon Lish
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross… — Sam Shepard
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your… — Elwyn Brooks White
Sincerity is technique. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Remarks aren't literature. — Gertrude Stein
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. — Zubin Mehta

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