Quotes by Writing I've been writing full-time since 1978. Alan Dean Foster writing Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. Alan Dean Foster writingworldtravel Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them. Alan Furst writingcharacter You write a lot of books; you hope you get better. Alan Furst get-betterwritingbook It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days. Alan Furst writingtwobook I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. Alan Furst sophisticatedwritingpeople I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. Alan Furst plotusewriting I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story. Alan Garner researchstorieswriting If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you. Alan Garner ifswriting When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent. Alan Garner simplewritingworld People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I don't change anything about the story itself. I'm going to tell kids the way things really were. What I don't do - and this is the only thing I do differently in writing for kids - is that I don't revel in the gory details. I allow readers to fill in the details as necessary. But I don’t force kids to have to digest something they’re not mature enough or ready for yet. If they are, they can fill in the details even better than I could, just with their imaginations. Alan Gratz writingkidsbook The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. Alan Hollinghurst tempogreat-wisdomwriting I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do. Alan Hollinghurst writingbookchildren A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty. Alan Jackson togetherwritingsong I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs. Alan Jackson writingsongthinking I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing. Alan Jackson writingsongpeople You just write about things that happen. Alan Jackson happenswriting You write a hit the same way you write a flop. Alan Jay Lerner songwritingwritingway There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? Alan Jay Lerner writingchildrenyears Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? Alan Jay Lerner speakwritingchildren«1718192021222324252627»
