Crafts Quote by Edmund Gosse Download Open image “The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.” — Edmund Gosse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Fiction Fiction Continual Novelty Secret Secret of success Secret Successful Secret to success Slight Novelty Success Successful Successful Fiction
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction. — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.” — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image