Novel Writing Quotes
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![Jack Getze](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1609107033i/434308.jpg)
“You don’t have to be around long to understand the world is a frightening place, that life includes situations you have no control over, that anything can happen. Everybody needs friends and a family.”
― Making Hearts
― Making Hearts
![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?”
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![Jack Getze](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1609107033i/434308.jpg)
“only a handful of pregnant women are like Emily; that is, they go to the hospital with pain and get the surprise of their life by delivering a child. Using Emily’s least-favorite math term, decimals, the number would be 0.0004 percent of all U.S. births. About fifteen hundred surprise babies a year.”
― Making Hearts
― Making Hearts
![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Joan Gelfand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1602556187i/984165._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Seven-thirty. Time. Time is a Mobius strip. Coding. Working. Training. An endless ribbon of activity; iterations, pushing, perfecting. Doug heads for his car, not sure why he is leaving, or, where he is going.”
― Extreme
― Extreme
![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Linda W. Yezak](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299177629i/4688488._UY200_CR24,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.”
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![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Graham Greene](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254688603i/2533._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed--he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.”
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![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Amit Kalantri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613203563i/6590179._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
![Zadie Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1478188567i/2522._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbroken, motherless girls had hoped to be visited by their father. But William was busy at his desk, dreaming up Jack Sheppard.”
― The Fraud
― The Fraud
“Word choice does matter when you convey your message to a particular reader. That reader will most likely engage with your written text if it is clear, meaningful and establishes a purpose.”
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“في بعض الأحيان يتعين علي الإنسان أن يكون غير مرأي عن الجميع خاصةً في لحظات الضعف وأن ينتظر الفرصة المناسبة للظهور مجدداً وبقوة”
― رأس الغول
― رأس الغول
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