“*The story,* I like to say and remember, *is always smarter than you* - there will be patterns of theme, image,e and idea that are much savvier and more complex than you could have come up with on your own.… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“One member of Paley's preschool class is 'The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter.' He is probably vaguely autistic, high-functioning, yet solitary to a… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“One danger zone is dialogue ... At the moment of ultimate showing, we writers get nervous. ... We allow characters to tell us about… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare doesn't use flashbacks, and his characters are more likely to philosophize than to remember. (Margot Livesey)” — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“Now I ask you to consider writing from the inside, to convince yourself of your characters' dimensions before you attempt to narrate around them… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“Friend, let me tell you this: telling in stories often attempts to simplify, to clarify, but when it's really working, telling complicates and adds… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“*The story,* I like to say and remember, *is always smarter than you* - there will be patterns of theme, image,e and idea that… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“But often it's the inexact, the awful, the mistaken linguistic turn that manages to say the right thing because it unmoors us from our… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“In her childhood, [Sylvia] Wright had heard a tune in which some lines seemed to be 'They have slain the Earl Amurray / and… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
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