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Writing Quotes by Terry Brooks
- What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
- If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
- Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always…
- Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but…
- Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for…
- There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you…
- I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me…
- If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit…
- The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic…
- You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this…
- If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned…
- What you write chooses you.
- If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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