Challenges Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image “The challenge is to write about real things magically.” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Challenges Real Real things Writing
It is a challenge to write in the real world once you've had the advantage of being able to create your own world. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
“The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell. I say trick but what I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
Challenges are what makes life interesting, them to overcome makes it meaningful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.” — Sandra Alex Copy Share Image
It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge. — Fred Schneider Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi 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
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“Doing the work to transform your dreams into reality is like walking across the earth. It can be that hard, and it can take… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts— so what? ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image