Journal Of A Novel Quotes

#1. In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

May Sarton

#2. Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.

Stuart Land

#3. Here is individual responsibility and the invention of conscience. You can if you will but it is up to you. This little story(from the Bible)turns out to be one of the most profound in the world. I always felt it was,but now I know it is.

John Steinbeck

#4. I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

John M. Corse

#5. Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you're going to do.

Hyrum W. Smith

#6. To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic inquiry.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.

Kathleen Brooks

#8. That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel - a novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

Cris Mazza

#9. I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. I push the big red button,and it doesn't work!

Ray Else

#11. Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the lost article finds its owner.

Cassandra Krivy Hirsch