Writing Quotes

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

Eudora Welty
You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

Stephen Sondheim
- Space
- Enough
- Lines

If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that'll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

Debra Doyle
- Stories
- Horse
- Fiction
I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

Dolly Parton
- Writing
- Song
- Inspire
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

Nick Bantock
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

Northrop Frye
- May
- Aim
- Attributes
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

George R. R. Martin
- Writing
- Heart
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

Sandra Cisneros
- Writing
- Calm
- Meditation