Crafts Quotes

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Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the… — Aristotle
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy
So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in… — Steve Tesich
Look if you like, but you will have to leap. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary
No time for poetry but exactly what is. — Jack Kerouac
First thought, best thought. — Allen Ginsberg
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.… — Ernest Hemingway
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only… — Guy de Maupassant
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
Mystery is the basic element of all works of art. — Luis Bunuel
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. — Raymond Carver
Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another. — Elizabeth Bowen
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles

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