Writer Quotes

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.