Quotes

We do not choose our subjects. They choose us. — Gustave Falubert

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. — Patricia Highsmith

The form chooses you, not the other way round. An idea comes and is already embodied in a form. — Michael Frayn

A solved mystery is ultimately reassuring to readers, asserting the triumph of reason over instinct, or order over anarchy. — David Lodge

The most important thing in a work of art is that it should have a kind of focus, that is, there should be some place where all the rays meet or from which they issue. — Leo Tolstoy

Drama is like real life with the dull bits cut out. — Alfred Hitchcock

If you really want to achieve greatness, you have to keep challenging yourself. You have to keep going back into yourself. — James Ellroy

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. — J. B. Priestley