Quotes about Composition

The parts of fiction are the various steps that the author takes to develop his plot—the details of characterization and incident.

You can make anything by writing.

When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

To begin at the beginning is, next to ending at the end, the whole art of writing; as for the middle you may fill it in with any rubble that you choose.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

The father's touching the son is an everlasting blessing; the son resting against his father's breast is an eternal peace. Christian Tümpel writes: "The moment of receiving and forgiving in the stillness of its composition lasts without end. The movement of the father and the son speaks of something that passes not, but lasts forever.

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same;

She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

But in that curious compound, the feminine character, it may easily happen that the flavor is unpleasant in spite of excellent ingredients;

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous." (VII)

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing