Books Quote by Nancy Kress Download Open image “You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.” — Nancy Kress ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Character People Reader Three Writing
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I have never successfully written in the third person. If there's a rhythm or a musicality that interests me, I become obsessed with the… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion.… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers that have always worked on multiple things. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative is just… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“Miri once told me that there were only four important questions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent. — Nancy Kress 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
