Tom Clancy Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Witty, Truth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

  Tom Clancy

  Writing, Simple, Trying

• Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Writing, Sailing

• You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

  Tom Clancy

  Hard Work, Writing, Kissing

  "Tom Clancy on Writing The Hunt for Red October". www.amc.com.

• If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Writing, Written

• Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

  Tom Clancy

  Art, Book, Writing

• Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

  Tom Clancy

  Character, Writing, Information

• Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

  Tom Clancy

  Writing, People, Sound

• I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

  Tom Clancy

  Fun, Writing, Long

  Interview with Don Swaim, 1986.

• Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

  Tom Clancy

  Writing, Golf, Play

  "Tom Clancy on Writing The Hunt for Red October", www.amc.com.

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