World of Books and Travel

1. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather 2. Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. - Richard Curtis 3. Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. - J. P. Donleavy 4. Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good. - William Faulkner 5. A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. - E. M. Forster 6. Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. - John Scalzi 7. The historian records, but the novelist creates. - E. M. Forster 8. My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it. - Ernest Hemingway 9. All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing i...

1.Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story. By Ethan Canin 2. It doesn’t matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does. By David Chase 3. Remember that you should be able to identify each character by what he or she says. Each one must sound different from the others. And they should not all sound like you. By Anne Lamott 4.Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn’t a story. By Malcolm Cowley 5.Dialogue which does not move the story along, or add to the mood of the story, or have an easily definable reason for being there at all (such as to establish important characterization), should be considered superfluous and therefore cut. By Bill Pronzini

Today we will see six other inspirational quotes from the famous writers. Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels…. by P. G. Wodehouse All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened… by Ernest Hemingway A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be…. by Albert Einstein A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. by Joyce Cary The task of a writer consists in being able to make something out of an idea. by Thomas Mann The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. by Agatha Christie

Once a week I'd love to post some quotes from famous writers. I think it will help the writers to get inspired. This week's quotes - All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary -- it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. - Somerset Maugham One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating. - Niyi Osundare The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible. - Mark Twain There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that u...

I always love to read the quotations of famous writers. Hope you too will enjoy them - "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer." - Ernest Hemingway "A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others." - Leo Rosten "A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pull...