Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Popular Topics
Possible, Living My Life, Period, Adventure, Intelligent, Song, Success, Thank You, Town, Ocean, Inspired, Gold, Peace Love, Evidence, Leadership, Education, Story, Future, Poor, Guru, Things In Life, Enthusiast, Light, Angry, Important, Butterfly, Live, Disco, Integrity, Loves, Alien, Fly, I Like You, Peace And Love, Body, Acknowledge, Teacher, Children, Dance, Food, Scholar, Feelings, Thing, Life Is Good, Kind, Happy, Difference, Kindness, Things, House
Ned Beauman

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

Excites, Explore, Novel, Reason, Start
Same Author Quotes

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

Avoiding, Novel, Thing, Working, Writers

Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.

Fresh, Mystery, Real, Reason, Solution

I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural gifts lie, if I have any. I like to think hard about plots in TV shows and films.

Character, Hard, Lying, Perhaps, Thinking, Work

I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me.

Arms, Enough, Kind, Start, Trying

You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate almost everything.

Couldnt, Everything, Hate, Ifs, Perhaps
Similar Quotes