Elucidados Quotes & Sayings

An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

I don't want people to think that I'm standing on the steps of the capitals. — Franklin Graham

The idea of being trapped in the north for the winter had given Tessa pause for only a moment before she'd cast it aside. She was going on an adventure, she'd reminded herself. And adventures always had an element of danger in them. That's what made them exciting. — Jody Hedlund

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — Agatha Christie

Love isn't about holding on. It's about letting go. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem. — Daniel Everett

A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself. — Nancy Kress

I've part changed my flesh since that time, why not my mind? — Herman Melville

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself. — Victor Hugo

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. — Lisa Gardner

Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life. — Joe Eszterhas

Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop? — Paul Oakenfold