To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.
– Johnny Rich
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- Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) – Jen Lynn Anderson
- A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. – Johnny Rich
- You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
- Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change. – Amit Chatterjee
- 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
- A bird, unable to fly, is still a bird; but a human unable to love is an inexpensive stone: like a piece of uric acid stone – Munia Khan
- Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- I couldn’t write-”or wouldn’t write, at any rate-”unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands – Armistead Maupin
- 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
- 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
- When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it’s yours. – Sidney Sheldon
- Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. – Johnny Cash
- A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- 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
- You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle. – Pat Conroy
- This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch. – Johnny Rich
- For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are. – Johnny Rich
- I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this. – Johnny Rich
- Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? – Johnny Rich
- Stories are just lies made to look like truth. – Johnny Rich
- Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering – Johnny Rich
- Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script. – Johnny Rich
- Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around. – Johnny Rich
- Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness – Johnny Rich
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. – Johnny Rich
- He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing – Johnny Rich
- Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? – Johnny Rich
- Silent is an anagram of listen. – Johnny Rich
- The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects – Johnny Rich
- Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose. – Johnny Rich
- A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. – Johnny Rich
- Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough. – Johnny Rich
- As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author. – Johnny Rich
- Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented. – Johnny Rich
- Even Damocles developed a routine. – Johnny Rich