Crafts Quotes

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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
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf
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
I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal. — Saul Bellow
...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
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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
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
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson
You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing. — Alice Munro
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you. — Richard Wilbur
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu. — William Stafford
There is one story and one story only. — Robert Graves
You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you. — Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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
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
[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
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. — Rudyard Kipling
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
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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