Language Quote by Jincy Willett

“I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I…

— Jincy Willett

I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.

— Jincy Willett

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

— Jincy Willett

“I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried,…

— Jincy Willett

“With this book I hope what I always hope—that readers will nod their heads (not constantly, you know, but at the odd juncture) and…

— Jincy Willett

“(D)ialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. 'When you're writing lines...you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we…

— Jincy Willett

“Arithmetic is the death of story.”

— Jincy Willett

“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise…

— Jincy Willett

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

— Jincy Willett

“...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.”

— Jincy Willett

“Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go…

— Jincy Willett

Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push…

— Jincy Willett