James N. Frey Quotes
- Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.
- You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next…
- All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
- The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.
- It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to…
- Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles.…
- To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.
- For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
- It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.…
- Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into…