Books Quote by James N. Frey Download Open image “For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.” — James N. Frey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Harder Novel Writing
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.” — Marianne Cushing Copy Share Image
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!” — Tony Jones Copy Share Image
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark sea. If… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... — William Petersen Copy Share Image
Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is. — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“You can kill the spell of identification just as easily as you can create it—if you lose the readers' sympathy for the character. You… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“So far, we’ve discussed how you start with a germinal idea and what makes a good one; then we discussed the villain profile and… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“Before you go ahead with a flashback, ask yourself if you can make the same impact on your reader through conflict in the now… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
