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Writing Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
- There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
- Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story…
- The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try…
- I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
- You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it…
- Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
- I listen to music constantly while writing.
- Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
- But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary…
- I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a…
- Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in…
- Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said…
- Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by…
- Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov