"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."

Writing,

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."

Exlpore more Writing quotes

"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Writing, Loneliness, Communication, Story

"Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Writing, Tools, Writer

"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Writing, Day, Luck

"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Writing, Plagiarism

"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Writing, First, Summer

"Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Writing, Ego, Criticism, Success

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Regret

"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Storytelling, Rules, Fiction

"I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months. Any longer and - for me, at least - the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity."

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Discipline, Wisdom, Power, Truth

"I'm likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Writing, Solitude, Creativity, Time

Explore more quotes by Kenneth Williams

"A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself."

People

"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."

Troops

"People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement."

People

"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."

Acquaintance

"We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better."

People

"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."

Writing