Book Quote by Philip Gerard Download Open image ““Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.”” — Philip Gerard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Every day Writing
“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“Life is a book and you are its author. You detemine its plot and pace and you--only you--turn its pages.” — Beth Mende Conny Copy Share Image
“People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?” — Martha Louise Hunter Copy Share Image
“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.” — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may be used… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually… — Jeffrey Littorno Copy Share Image
It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art:… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. — Philip Gerard 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
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 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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image