Unwritten Novel Quotes

#1. The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare.

China Mieville

#2. Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.

Anne Lamott

#3. The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

James Kirk

#4. A show of power is not the same as silent power.

T.F. Hodge

#5. She was pretty sure that if she had been, though, none of the hypotheticals would have resembled this in the slightest: surrounded by vampires, possibly pregnant, with a fallen angel in an Elvis costume mangling the ceremony from the Book of Common Prayer.

J.R. Ward

#6. Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

Agnes Repplier

#7. No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.

Tom Northup

#8. Every girl wants her very own Jack Dawson.

J.M. Darhower