Words matter. These are the best Thousand Words Quotes from famous people such as Linwood Barclay, Eric Brown, Lisa See, Duff McKagan, Cassandra Clare, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Once I have a hook I think has potential – enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I’m writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
I write a thousand words a day.
I’m not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.
Write every day. Don’t kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, ‘I have to write a chapter a day’ and they can’t. They fall behind and stop doing it. But if you just write even one hundred words a day, it’s not that much. By the end of a month, you’ll have three thousand words, which is one chapter.
Don’t try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
I have written 30,000 words in a month – think of it – 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
Sometimes people say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so if you look at my tattoos and you know what you’re reading, you can draw a lot from them.
In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story – especially if you’ve only got a couple of thousand words to play with, and you need room for other stuff, like character, description.
Sometimes a couple notes are worth a thousand words.
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes it easy to pick up on the next day.
In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
What’s great is that each medium has a unique set of things that it does and does well. Film is a visual medium, and obviously, you can’t fit a whole book into two hours unless you’re really economical about it. Obviously, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and on some level, it’s sort of true.
