C. J. Box famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
-- C. J. Box

#Sports #Real #Writing
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
-- C. J. Box

#Children #Joy #Stories
I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
-- C. J. Box

#Writing #Research

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

C. J. Box famous quotes

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