Bill Stout famous quotes

Whether or not you write well, write bravely.
-- Bill Stout

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Simplicate and add more lightness.
-- Bill Stout

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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!