Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.
– Mercedes M Yardley
Related Quotes:
- Do you mind,- he asked politely, -œif I slide my blade under your skin, just a little? – Mercedes M Yardley
- Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don’t build themselves. So YOU must build your home – Fela Durotoye
- 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
- If you act like you’ve only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you’ve got all day, it will take fifteen minutes. – Monty Roberts
- While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other People’s Minutes.-RVM – RVM
- A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them? – Ilse Aichinger
- Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please. – Shannon Celebi
- Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. – Erma Bombeck
- Five minutes ago is gone, never to be seen again. Five minutes from now, isn’t here yet….What are you going to do with it? – T L Henry
- If I’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago. – Becca Fitzpatrick
- O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. – DH Lawrence
- Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream. – Pamela Morris
- Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
- 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 never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
- [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn’t remember another time in his life when he’d been this angry and hadn’t hit something. – Mercedes Lackey
- It takes many years to build good reputations, but it takes a few minutes for their destruction. – Debasish Mridha
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. – Warren Buffett
- You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word. – Laurie Seidler
- A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create. – Meia Geddes
- God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
- The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. – Sarah Addison Allen
- I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
- We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson
- Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms). – JM Varner
- Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin’ 90k word novel is the hard part. – Ellie Ann
- Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word. – ND Wilson
- Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink. – Vironika Tugaleva
- You must build castles in the air, how else will you learn to build? – Haresh Sippy
- Don’t build a team that will fuel your ‘ego’. Build a team that has the skills, desire & passion for fueling the ‘vision’. – Yvonne Pierre
- The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World. – Gabriel Brunsdon
- Replace cyber-bullying with cyber-believing.Let us build eachother up instead of bringing others down. BELIEVE & BUILD – Janna Cachola
- When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you. – Kiran Desai
- Some people build houses, buildings. I don’t. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author – Ryan Mark