Addiction Quote by James N. Frey Download Open image “Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.” — James N. Frey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addiction Books Heroin Heroin addiction Novel Novel writing Writing
“Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop.” — F.D. Crandall Copy Share Image
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.” — Anthea Syrokou Copy Share Image
That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction. — Marcy Dermansky Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
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… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort. — Tibor Fischer 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
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. — 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
“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
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image
