Alan Cheuse quotes

Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.
-- Alan Cheuse

#Writing #Trying #Habit

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.
-- Alan Cheuse

#Writing #Thinking #Fiction

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading--all at the same time.
-- Alan Cheuse

#Girl #Book #Reading

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.