Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
– Langston Hughes
Hold Fast to Dreams
Category: Writing
What you are…
You are what you settle for.
—Janis Joplin
Imagination
“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
— Philip Jose Farmer
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
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
First Draft
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
– Terry Pratchett
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
—John Steinbeck
Description
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
—Stephen King
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
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
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