Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
—Stephen King
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Tag: Writing
The only way
Any form of human creativity is a process of doing it and getting better at it. You become a writer by writing. There is no other way.
—Margaret Atwood
The Writer’s Job
The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
—Vladimir Nabokov
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
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
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
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