This video features selections from my curated collection of literary quotes on the concept of reality in fiction writing. Part III includes quotes by:
This video features selections from my curated collection of literary quotes on the concept of reality in fiction writing. Part II includes quotes by:
This video features selections from my curated collection of literary quotes on the concept of reality in fiction writing. Part I includes quotes by:
This video features selections from my curated collection of literary quotes on the concept of write what you know in fiction writing. The video includes quotes by:
Dear fellow writers and artists our first trip together around the Sun has come to an end.
A year ago I embarked on my pursuit of a Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts degree, and my journey is now complete. I will be graduating in August.
Each day during the past year, I set out to discover top writers, and by curating their words, to learn their insights on the writing craft.
Along the way, I have became reacquainted with old friends whose stories I’d loved since I was a child, and made new friends whose stories inspire me anew.
To mark my progress, each day I shared literary quotes with other artists and writers, like you. I am pleased to know that sharing the words of great writers has provided you with inspiration, knowledge, and joy.
Today, as I transition from student to writer, will mark a new beginning for me, and so the content I share will evolve.
I invite you to join me in writing and creating, as we embark on our next journey around the Sun.
Be well. Be safe. Stay creative.
Write something today and share it.
Regards,
Rolando
This video features selections from my curated collection of literary quotes on the short story. The video includes quotes by:
Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it’s a very limited one. And by and large, it isn’t helpful.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Books, like people, can’t be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
TOP 25 QUOTES BY YANN MARTEL (of 248) | A-Z Quotes. (2020). Retrieved 25 June 2020, from https://www.azquotes.com/author/9521-Yann_Martel
Rolando Andrés Ramos 
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