What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Slow down to speed up. Anonymous
When you have a grasp on eternity your eyes won't ever see the battle or the lost people that hurt you. You will see a beautiful story of hope, in every character. It is not one person god loves. He l...
Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just...
I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in wha...
If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.
Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in...
The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, objects. It thinks. Film implodes discourse, it deliterates thought, it shrinks it to the compacted...
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always...
In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it...
Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.