Quotes by Writing I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable. Arthur Bradford writingtryinginteresting If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. Arthur Brisbane eyewritingneeds Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. Arthur Brisbane writingpeoplethinking I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke questions-and-answerswritingthinking I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. Arthur C. Clarke readingwritingbook No trilogy should have more than four books. Arthur C. Clarke should-havewritingbook There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends. Arthur C. Clarke ambitionhopewriting The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read. Arthur C. Clarke science-fictionwriting I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read, that's one thing, because you have to resolve a tremendous amount of background information. Also, you should know what the competition is writing, just so you're not wasting your time doing the same thing. Unless you do it better, of course. Arthur C. Clarke competitionwritingthinking A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy. Now, fantasy is also fine, but there is a distinction, although no one's ever been able to say just where the dividing lines come. Arthur C. Clarke understandingfeelingswriting To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one. Arthur C. Clarke peacefuldifferentwriting It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? Arthur Conan Doyle what-mattersmistakewriting If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are. Arthur Conan Doyle copieswantwriting Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle obviousnessdonewriting Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. Arthur Conan Doyle writinglifeyears You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. Arthur Conan Doyle readingwritingbook It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. Arthur Conan Doyle infidelitydivorcewriting Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying. Arthur David Beaty airwritingtrying If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. Arthur Eddington armywritingbook On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he was writing-after a pause came the reply, 'Perhaps seven.' Arthur Eddington smartwritingscience«106107108109110111112113114115116»
