Any Quote by Patrick O'Brian

I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the…

— Flannery O'Connor

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task.…

— Kristina McMorris

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels,…

— John Darnielle

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into…

— Zoe Foster Blake

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories…

— Flannery O'Connor

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

— Anonymous

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time,…

— Deborah Harkness

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

— Rachel Kushner