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...
Writing is the thing that props me up.
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Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of t...
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.
There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.
Briefer is better, so learn to write tight
It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by...
we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose...
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls!
Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.
Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeless -- as, in the same way, the narratives called biographies pale and shrink in t...
Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotio...
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.