"Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak."

--

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Rose Tremain

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Details Quotes

“Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.”
“As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.”

Source : "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.
“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.”
“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
“There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.”

Source : Source: www.strategy-business.com
“The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'.”
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

You may also like:

Andrea Levy
Author
Helen Dunmore
Poet
Jane Gardam
Writer
Lionel Shriver
Journalist
Malcolm Bradbury
Author
Pat Barker
Writer
Siri Hustvedt
Novelist
Tracy Chevalier
Novelist
William Trevor
Novelist