Frank Herbert Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Writing, Stories

  Interview with Willis McNelly, www.sinanvural.com. February 3, 1969.

• The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Historical, Secret

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.70, Penguin

• You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Attention, Ifs

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

• Money to a writer is time to write.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing

• But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

  Frank Herbert

  Reading, Writing, Differences

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

• When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Writing, Years

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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