Formulaic Writing Quotes & Sayings

Structure doesn't make a story formulaic. The writer does. — Peter Arpesella

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history. — Simon Schama

Sometimes, when the planets align, even he realizes when a smart-ass comment is unnecessary. — Christina Lauren

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files. — Jim Butcher

From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city. — Colm Toibin

I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing. — Halsey

Miles of junk to throw out
how do you decide what to keep when everything is sentiment. — Staceyann Chin

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill. — Patty Duke

There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds of things because they are mundane and drudgery. — Philip M. Parker

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough — Patricia Wentworth

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it! — Daisy Fuentes

There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry. — Edgar Winter

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. — Gautama Buddha

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine