“If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.”–John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (November 1939)
“Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.”–Edith Wharton
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”-Stephen King
Knut Hamsun Quote
Knut Hamsun, circa 1890
How does that make you feel?
You’ll never perfect your craft.
The idea that you can perfect your craft is a chimera, a distraction.
Allen Ginsberg Quote
Yours truly on fiction
Leo Tolstoy Quote
A kicky reminder for you, or the writer in your life.
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