Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.
– Carlos Fuentes
Tag: don’t
Quotable 472
You don’t become a novelist to become a spinner of entertaining lies: you become a novelist so you can tell the truth.
– Hilary Mantel
Quotable 461
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.
– Flannery O’Connor
Quotable 427
I don’t fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don’t fool around with it.
– Raymond Carver
Quotable 394
One reason I think I don’t get blocked is that I’m not afraid to write bad, early drafts in order to get to the good.
– Deborah Reed
Quotable 393
Remember that no one can take writing away from you. You don’t need permission. When you’re ready to write, consider that impulse to be permission granted.
– Sonia Taitz
Quotable 385
I don’t believe in “Write what you know,” but I’m a big believer in “Know what you write.”
– Jim C. Hines