Sunday Quote

"Art is not a handicraft. It is the transmission of a feeling which the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy

Sunday Quote

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow

Sunday Quote

"Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy."
Richard North Patterson

Sunday Quote

"Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while."
David Eddings

Sunday Quote

"If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies."
Allan W. Eckert

Sunday Quote

"Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer."
John O'Hara

Sunday Quote

"He is able who thinks he is able."
Buddha

Sunday Quote

"There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art."
Lawrence Watt-Evans

Sunday Quote

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
Oscar Wilde

Sunday Quote

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. Doctorow

Sunday Quote

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
W. Somerset Maugham

Sunday Quote

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain