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 Quality of Redemption
Tag: Writing
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
Nothing to it…
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
– Ernest Hemingway
Simply the best…
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
– Ernest Hemingway
People… not characters
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
– Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s Rules
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
—Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s Golden Ratio…
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety nine pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the waste-basket.
—Ernest Hemingway
There’s always room…
There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
– J. K. Rowling
The terrible thing…
The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.
—James Baldwin
Writer’s Block…
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