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- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter…
- When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;…
- If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York…
- Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police…
- As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
- Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even…
- The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings…
- It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
- Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.
- You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the…
- Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.
- Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth…
- Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.
- I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
- So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base…
- The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your…
- The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a…
- Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
- Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s…
- I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel…
- There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw…
- In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum…
- Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
- I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing
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