“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy” — Eitan Levy Copy Share Image
“She opened her eyes and looked into his rather intensely. "What?" Alex asked. "This cannot be." "What can't be?" Alex asked her,… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
“This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.” — Davee Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
“Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“I got the job as a Bingo host and did better than they imagined. Never before had they had an emcee so… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The earth rests on three whales: On the deeds of heroes. On the prayers of believers. On the toasts of drunkards.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“People say to me they don't have time to write and I just look at them like they're crazy. Like I have… — D.A. Nelson Copy Share Image
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He is half vampire. He would eat you.” Gatuika splashes her sister.” — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
“For example, instead of saying that it was a rainy night, you can say, “At night she could see from her window… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when… — James Wood Copy Share Image
When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
