Writing quotes
March 3rd 2011 07:34
Two writers....on writing
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - chapter 6
It would not be becoming were I to travesty a sermon, or even to repeat the language of it in the pages of a novel. In endeavouring to depict the characters of the persons of whom I write, I am to a certain extent forced to speak of sacred things. I trust, however, that I shall not be thought to scoff at the pulpit, though some imagine that I do not feel all the reverence that is due to the cloth. I may question the infallibility of the teachers, but I hope that I shall not therefore be accused of doubts as to the thing to be taught.
Dick Francis - News/Sun Sentinel (quoted in The Writer, Aug 1987)
I find writing very hard work. I think of every word that goes down. people write to say they loved a book so well they read it in three hours. I say, 'Good God, all those months of work consumed in three hours!' It's a disappointment it goes so quickly, but of course I get tremendous gratification when people say that to me.
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - chapter 6
It would not be becoming were I to travesty a sermon, or even to repeat the language of it in the pages of a novel. In endeavouring to depict the characters of the persons of whom I write, I am to a certain extent forced to speak of sacred things. I trust, however, that I shall not be thought to scoff at the pulpit, though some imagine that I do not feel all the reverence that is due to the cloth. I may question the infallibility of the teachers, but I hope that I shall not therefore be accused of doubts as to the thing to be taught.
Dick Francis - News/Sun Sentinel (quoted in The Writer, Aug 1987)
I find writing very hard work. I think of every word that goes down. people write to say they loved a book so well they read it in three hours. I say, 'Good God, all those months of work consumed in three hours!' It's a disappointment it goes so quickly, but of course I get tremendous gratification when people say that to me.
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