I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don’t have answers to.
– Toni Morrison
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 233
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
– Harper Lee
Quotable 232
Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
– Isabel Allende
Quotable 231
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
– Richard Wilbur
Quotable 230
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
— Stephen King
Quotable 229
It’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
– Neil Gaiman
Quotable 228
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein
Quotable 227
I don’t base characters on anyone. I make them up, otherwise I’d be thinking about that person and not the character.
– Nora Roberts
Quotable 226
Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
– John Cleese
Quotable 225
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person.
– Barbara Kingsolver