Books Quote by Mercedes M. Yardley Download Open image ““Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.”” — Mercedes M. Yardley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Busy Inspiration Inspirational attitude Novels Time Writing advice
“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of the year,… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.” — Jennifer v Clancy Copy Share Image
“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m talking about… — John Truby Copy Share Image
“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with my million-word… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.… — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.” — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
“Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
“Every writing session after this realization, I dedicated five minutes (sometimes more, never less) and wrote out a quick description of what I was… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
“Maybe princes aren’t real,” Sada said. Her eyes were crafty and sad at the same time. “But monsters are.” She opened her mouth wide… — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
“Do you mind,” he asked politely, “if I slide my blade under your skin, just a little?” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
“For the first time I saw Death as somebody to fear instead of the gangly sack of bones who ate all of my Cheetos… — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
“The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
“Weakness is stereotypically expected in women but also despised.” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
“Lu felt his heart do a strange thing. It hurt. It opened. It beat.” — Mercedes M. Yardley 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
