Crafts Quotes

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I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people… — Flannery O'Connor
In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other. — Diane Johnson
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… — Flannery O'Connor
In art economy is always beauty. — Henry James
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. — Czeslaw Milosz
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its… — Eudora Welty
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Simone Weil
Load every rift with ore. — John Keats
Fill the moment and find variety. — Paul Newman
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichÃ©s that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened. — Wallace Stegner
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it. — Romulus Linney
The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye. — Donald Hall
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when… — Mark Twain
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge… — Ben Jonson
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… — Flannery O'Connor

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