All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
Wishful thinking
Category: Writing
You don’t have to die…
You don’t need demons
“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club
Looking into the Abyss
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
– Michael Connelly
Getting the most from life
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R. R. Martin
The Water Doesn’t Flow
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
—Louis L’Amour
Clear as a Country Creek
I think most writers, even the best, overwrite. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
—Truman Capote
The Well
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
– Ernest Hemingway
A Quality of Redemption
I’m a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there’s a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
– Michael Connelly
A Rhythmic Thing
When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved. It’s a rhythmic thing. Like music. You can feel the way that language lifts and turns around itself.
—Sam Shepard
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