"To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."
- Truman Capote
- James Michener
Showing posts with label Truman Capote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truman Capote. Show all posts
Saturday, May 1, 2010
I was wrong, there will be another Writing Quote from Michener
These quotes came from The Creative Screenwriting Weekly Newsletter.
"To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."
"To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Capote...WTF? And other Writing Quotes
These quotes came from The Creative Screenwriting Weekly Newsletter.
"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
"Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?"
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, via Chris.
"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
- Truman Capote
"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
- William Faulkner
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
- Samuel Butler
"Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?"
- Terri Guillemets
And...
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, via Chris.
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