"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."

Reading, Thought, Books, Pretty

49

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."

Exlpore more Reading quotes

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Reading, Read

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Reading, Courage, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Reading, Pride, Books, Enjoyment

"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Reading, Escape, Story, Reality

"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Reading, Books, Human, Emotion

"The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Reading, Books, Solitude, Joy

"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Reading, Wisdom, Bible, Books

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Man, Sound, Wishes

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Reading, Impact, Culture, Imagination

Explore more quotes by George Stephen

"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."

Horror

"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."

Horror

"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."

Business

"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."

Horror

"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."

Dance

"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."

Creativity

"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."

Writing

49

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Reading quotes

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself."

"With a book he was regardless of time."

"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

Explore more quotes by George Stephen

"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."

"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."

"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."

"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."

"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."

"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."

"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."

"For each book, the time is also broken up."

"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."

"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."