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  • When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Garner Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Writing Quotes , Texas Quotes
  • Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Real Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Country Quotes , Writing Quotes