Crafts Quotes
929 quotes by 710 authors
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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's…
— Barry Hannah
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...
— Virginia Woolf
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The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!
— Ford Madox Ford
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I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.
— Saul Bellow
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a…
— Anne Lamott
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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's…
— William Faulkner
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The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the…
— Leon Uris
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The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
— Diane Johnson
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
— Alice Munro
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Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
— Richard Wilbur
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
— William Stafford
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There is one story and one story only.
— Robert Graves
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You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.
— Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
— E. M. Forster
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The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that…
— Percy Lubbock
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[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
— Susan Sontag
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
— Rudyard Kipling
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There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the…
— Frank O'Connor
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Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness…
— Aristotle
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