Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
—Stephen King
Description
Tag: Writing
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
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
Nothing to it…
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
– Ernest Hemingway
An Artist’s fear…
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg
There’s always room…
There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
– J. K. Rowling
Who’s on first? Truman Capote on Writing
I always write the end of everything first. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going, is my theory.
—Truman Capote
Intuition
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
— Ray Bradbury
