Hours Quote by James Scott Bell Download Open image “Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.” — James Scott Bell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hours Inspirational Worry Writing
I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write. — Don Murray Copy Share Image
I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop? Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each… — James Scott Bell Copy Share
“The exclamation point is a loud party-goer, demanding attention. Overdone, it can be annoying.” — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“At this point in the story, the character looks at himself. He takes stock of where he is in the conflict and––depending on the type of story––has either of two basic thoughts. In a character-driven story, he looks at himself and wonders what kind of person he is. What is he becoming? If he continues the fight of Act II,… — James Scott Bell Copy Share
The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Dwight Swain, the great writing teacher, once said that the secret of excitement is to go deeper into your characters. Create more backstory, more… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“A good story transports the reader to a new place via experience. Not through arguments or facts, but through the illusion that life is… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
The most important rule: Do not, I repeat, do not censor yourself in any way. Leave your editorial mind out of the loop. Just… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“At some point you’re going to have to formulate your copy, and if you do it early, it will keep you from writing a… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Transformation is about change, and change needs to be proven. People can talk a good game. Someone can say he's sorry for stealing and… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics -… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my… — Kelly Link Copy Share
