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Ronald Frame Quotes

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing ‘cos all our lives are equally real, and it’s just a matter of depicting them and talking about them Picture Quote #1

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I’ve always had that Picture Quote #1

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we’re still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was ‘Great Expectations’ and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn’t supply Picture Quote #1

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I’d done well enough to earn the honour in last week’s test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier Picture Quote #1

Let’s say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that’s simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don’t want fancy descriptions getting in the way Picture Quote #1

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go Picture Quote #1

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I’ve actually got quite a good memory. I’ve good recall. It’s often things which other people might not notice Picture Quote #1

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I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing ‘cos all our lives are equally real, and it’s just a matter of depicting them and talking about them. (Ronald Frame Quotes) As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I’ve always had that. (Ronald Frame Quotes) We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we’re still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was ‘Great Expectations’ and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn’t supply. (Ronald Frame Quotes) At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I’d done well enough to earn the honour in last week’s test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier. (Ronald Frame Quotes) Let’s say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that’s simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don’t want fancy descriptions getting in the way. (Ronald Frame Quotes) The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. (Ronald Frame Quotes) I’ve actually got quite a good memory. I’ve good recall. It’s often things which other people might not notice. (Ronald Frame Quotes)