Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will n...
It is the tale, not he who tells it.
love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make...
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Where the world ends is where you must begin
We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.
Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
Dirty birdy
You’d be surprised what a person can live with, Dan said.
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.
What was in Cap City that would take four English teachers there in the middle of summer vacation? Harlan Coben, Terry said.