Writing Quote by Michael Knight Download Open image ““Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.”” — Michael Knight ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.” — Federico Chini Copy Share Image
“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“good storytelling is good because the characters — not the author — are in charge.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because… — M.L. Gardner Copy Share Image
“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.” — Susie Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes the story to grow, for the real characters to emerge.” — Daniel Kaye Copy Share Image
“He could not have explained the intensity of his attraction to {her}, that blissful ache that welled up in his chest at the sight… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him,… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“Like the long gone captains of the Confederacy, he stood watch at the edge of Dauphin Island, his old life just out of sight across the water. What he felt in those moments, pelicans skimming the chop, tankers lugging cargo to ports unknown, was not loneliness or loss, as you might expect, nor the weight of tragedy but its opposite,… — Michael Knight Copy Share
“{She} considered mentioning...how she, to, was all alone. But it didn't matter. So many stupid ways to live and die. She felt a shift… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV, always blooming… — Michael Knight 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
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch 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
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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