Ian Fleming Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.

  Ian Fleming

  Sorry, Team, Writing

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 20: The Nature Of Evil, 1953.

• I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

  Ian Fleming

  Writing, Looks, Asks

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

• Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

  Ian Fleming

  Writing, Precedent

  "TV highlights 12/02/2014" by Jonathan Wright, John Robinson, Rachel Aroesti, David Stubbs, Luke Holland, Bim Adewunmi, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2014.

• If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

  Ian Fleming

  Book, Writing, Self

• I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

  Ian Fleming

  Book, Writing, Agony

• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  Ian Fleming

  Morning, Book, Writing

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

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