Writing is like sex; you don’t have to wait until you’re an expert to begin doing it.
I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps if you have a plan and a course laid out.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me”.
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
Novels begin not on the page, but in meditation and daydreaming—in thinking, not writing.
I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time.
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Don't take rest after your first victory..
Because if you fail in second,more lips are waiting to say that Your first victory was just luck ..
By: Dr.A.P.J ABDUL KALAM
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.