“Fiction is the single best means for arriving at the truth.” Don DeLillo. Elizabeth Lyon used this quote on one of the front pages of her book, Manuscript Makeover click here. I’d like to have a chat with her and DeLillo to understand why she chose that quote for a book on revision […]
A Favorite Writer’s Quote
Salman Rushdie said, “Books choose their authors: the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.” That quote is on my top ten list. On a scale of one to five with five being highest, what would you give that quote? Julaina Kleist-Corwin Editor of Written Across the Genres […]
Quotes for Writers
“You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.” —George Singleton “When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.” —Margaret Laurence […]
Quotes About Writing
Catherine Brady says in Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction, “Rather than reduce motive to a single explanation, the real problem you face is to compound motive rather than declare it–To know how not to know.” Gertrude Stein once said of the writing process, “It will come if it is there and if […]
Quotes for Writers
Quotes for writers or anyone who likes quotes like I do. “A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.” —Angela Carter “When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.” —Margaret Laurence “I think all writing is a […]
E.L.Doctorow Quotes
E.L. Doctorow passed away last week Wednesday, July 22, 2015, at age 84. Doctorow was a heavy smoker and died of complications involving lung cancer. He was born in the Bronx on January 6, 1931. His parents were second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish extraction and named their son Edgar after Edgar Allen Poe. Doctorow wrote […]
Writing Prompt in a Quote
Today I went with three of my long time friends to meet a mutual friend at Frank Coppola’s Winery Restaurant. We had an hour and a half drive from the south and the friend from the north had about 45 minutes to get there. Heavy, dark clouds followed us and a misty rain teased the […]