Alan Watt > Quotes

“Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.”
― Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.”
― Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.”
― Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

“Sophisticated Hindus do not think of God as a special and separate superperson who rules the world from above, like a monarch. Their God is "underneath" rather than "above" everything, and he (or it) plays the world from inside.”
― Alan Watt

“There can be great value in imagining our hero at the end of the story. When we have confidence in our destination we are more inclined to put our hero in jeopardy.”
― Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume.”
― Alan Watt