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Writing Quotes by Dean Koontz
- Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice…
- If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to…
- A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
- When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
- I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
- I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
- If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
- I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
- Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having…
- The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original.…
- But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good…
- The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
- If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself
- If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do,…
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
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- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov