Alan Lightman Quotes, Writing Quotes, Fiction Quotes

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Cheating Quotes , Writing Quotes

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

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My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

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