motivational

      
                                    

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

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.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me”.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

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.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Novels begin not on the page, but in meditation and daydreaming—in thinking, not writing.

Writing is like sex; you don’t have to wait until you’re an expert to begin doing it.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time.

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.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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