Quote by Daniel Galera

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

— Stephen King

“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a…

— John Gardner

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich…

— Marion Dane Bauer

“The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.”

— Jane Austen

“Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that…

— Elmore Leonard

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo

“While we are aiming at clear ideas, the food gets cold and tasteless.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

The devil's in the details. The way I view my job is to bring the reader into a world they otherwise could not enter…

— Don Winslow

“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its characters, the…

— Todd Alcott

“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying, or maintaining…

— Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen

“Tragedy's language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is within a…

— Ruth Padel