It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.” — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences,… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway.” — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four,… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long,… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
