You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing.
– Gene Wolfe
Related Quotes:
- Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) – Jen Lynn Anderson
- Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy. – Sarra Cannon
- People don’t want other people to be people. – Gene Wolfe
- Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. – Gene Wolfe
- We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. – Gene Wolfe
- Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle science fiction. – Gene Wolfe
- My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. – Gene Wolfe
- I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy – Gene Wolfe
- We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. – Gene Wolfe
- We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges. – Gene Wolfe
- That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. – Gene Wolfe
- That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. – Gene Wolfe
- My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. – Gabriel Fielding
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel – Joan Didion
- A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. – Alexandra Cruz
- Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don’t write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write. – Himanshu Chhabra
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- Writing a novel is easy-¦ writing checks is hard. – Michael J Kannengieser
- The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels. – Mylo Carbia
- The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read. – Austin Kleon
- The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more. – Jasper Fforde
- It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice. – Natalie Goldberg
- To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write. – Johnny Rich
- When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it’s yours. – Sidney Sheldon
- The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. – Edwin Muir
- As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. – Stephen Colbert
- Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel-”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. – Elizabeth Hardwick
- A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
- I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn. – John Piper
- The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. – Tom Winton
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel. – Ally Spina
- It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Not everyone will like what you write but there’s a certain group who’ll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them. – David Chuka
- Thinking before writing how I feel. That’s how I’m able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ? – Muhammad Faizan Khan
- Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious. – Unknown