A reader has to be concerned only with the end result;
unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know
by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to
know. ~ Ayn Rand
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as
if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get
stuck on any particular point and have to question
yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself. ~ Ayn
Rand
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection.
Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: ‘I’ll
merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so
would say.’ You have to reproduce it in the way your
literary premises dictate. ~ Ayn Rand
[Editors] drive us nuts. We go from near-worshipful
groveling when we submit to bitter cursing when they reject
us. ~ Ken Rand
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a
writer is working when he's staring out of the window. ~
Burton Rascoe
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is
truer. ~ Frederic Raphael
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a
writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your
feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental
acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around
and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately
-- many people will help you unintentionally. ~ Santha Rama
Rau
Truth is always duller than fiction. ~ Piers Paul
Read
If you want to write you must have faith in yourself.
Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you,
it is likely true about many people. And if you can have
faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can
write about yourself without fear. ~ Real Live
Preacher
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very
emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out
flat. You can’t fake your way through this. ~ Real Live
Preacher
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep
proving your talent to those who have none. ~ Jules
Renard
Writing is the only profession where no one considers
you ridiculous if you earn no money. ~ Jules Renard
Writing energy is like anything else. The more you put
in, the more you get out. ~ Richard Reeves
Writing is the best way to talk without being
interrupted. ~ Jules Renard
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely
perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is
find it, and copy it. ~ Jules Renard
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to
be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing
to me and to get on with it. ~ Ruth Rendell
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books.
It is idiotic to be curious about the person. ~ Jean
Rhys
When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go
where the pain is. ~ Anne Rice
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of
changing reality. ~ Adrienne Rich
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will
be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. ~
Mordecai Richler
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing;
it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have
here, and the frustration that it creates. ~ Mordecai
Richler
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see
whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your
heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you
were forbidden to write. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude,
great inner solitude. Going into yourself and meeting no
one for hours on end--that is what you must be able to
attain. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull. ~ Frank
Robinson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty
of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~
Theodore Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and
hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only reason for being a professional writer is that
you just can't help it. ~ Leo Rosten
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that
he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly
self-absorbed. ~ Leo Rosten
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before
there's a paragraph that's alive. ~ Philip Roth
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated,
wonderful thing in the world. ~ Arundhati Roy
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not
entirely a rational and conscious one. ~ Salman
Rushdie
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words,
or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the
plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand
them. ~ John Ruskin
Nature fits all her children with something to do; He
who would write and can't write, can surely review. ~ James
Russell Lowell
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