Writer Techniques Quotes

#1. The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel.

Pope Francis

#2. I have a shocking memory - I remember everything.

Melinda Chapman

#3. Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Voltaire

#4. The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

Allan Boesak

#5. As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:
genuine clarity
genuine feeling
the right word
the exact English sentence
the eloquent detail
the rigorous dramatization of story

Richard Yates

#6. Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

Homer Hickam

#7. They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

John Lancaster Spalding

#8. You can't serve God with a gun.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Michel Faber

#11. As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

Kate Bernheimer

#12. Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a genius. No angels handed him his lines, no fairies proofread for him. Instead, he learnt techniques, he learnt tricks, and he learnt them well.

Mark Forsyth

#13. Alliteration seems to offend people.

Dean Koontz

#14. I will always put family first. Every time I haven't, I have regretted it and apologised.

Andrew Forrest

#15. I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned.

Robert Crais