Books Quote by James Thayer Download Open image “My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.” — James Thayer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Compelling Ideas Novel Originals Rare things
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof,… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I… — James Thayer 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
