Creativity and writing Quote by Nancy Kress Download Open image “Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.” — Nancy Kress ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity and writing Fiction Fiction writers Fiction writing Screwed up Stuff Writers and writing Writing Writing by writers
The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better. — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“Miri once told me that there were only four important questions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all… — David Brin Copy Share Image
