Ann Maxwell Quotes
I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
Ann Maxwell
Quotes to Explore
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.
Alexi Zentner
You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
John Cameron Mitchell
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Douglas Bader
I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.
Al Madrigal
I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
Ann Maxwell
