"You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing."

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Gene Wolfe

#Writing Quotes #Novel Quotes

“So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?”
“God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.”
“When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 14, 2016
“Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.”
“Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry”
“I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.”
“So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.”
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

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