Fiction writers Quote by Pete Hamill Download Open image “Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.” — Pete Hamill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction writers Fiction writing Hardest Heavy Heavy lifting Involving Lifting World Writers and writing Writing Writing by writers
Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is. — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
