In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.
Process is nothing; erase your tracks. The path is not the work. I hope your tracks have grown over; I hope birds ate the crumbs; I hope you will toss it all and not look back.
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
But whatever the exact psychology of the process {receiving recognition or literary success}, the present has a way of contaminating the past. And the writing will change accordingly. Turmoil and dile...
Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING
More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
Don't let others define your dreams.
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball....
I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.
Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was real or imagined? What mattered was that the detail seemed real, and that it was absolute...
People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp...
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes i...
Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed
We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.
It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!
When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
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