David Xavier > Quotes

“…in order to write books, all one needs to have is something to say, a stack of blank papers and a pen with which to say it; everything else is extraneous and nothing more than an attempt to add theatrics to the trade. ~ Camilo Jose Cela”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“An author should “deal in a kind of currency of the sorts of questions we’re asking ourselves all the time: What it is to grow up, what it is to fall in love, grow old, make choices, deal with regrets, try and do something about your errors.” ~ Ian McEwan”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“fiction must tell the truth.”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“The journey of the imagination to a remote place is child’s play. ~ Thornton Wilder”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“London An author who writes about love will not be the first to have done so.”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“All ideas are secondhand. The kernal, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagerism." ~ Mark Twain”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“Hemingway pounds the table and says "If you're a writer, declare yourself the best writer." He then points across the table and clarifies, "But you're not as long as I'm around, unless you want to put the gloves on and settle it.”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“Be clear with yourself on the themes you want to present or explore – Ayn Rand said, what you understand clearly, you can express exactly. When”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“So you must put real qualities in your imaginary world, but the more important part of telling the truth is that fiction must reaffirm human realities and emotions - things that people deal with in real”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“Writers “tell our two or three stories each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.” ~ F Scott Fitzgerald”
― David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity