About Quote by Nick Petrie

“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t…

— Norman Mailer

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can…

— Ernest Hemingway

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

— William Gibson

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.…

— Ernest Hemingway

Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off,…

— Tom Peters

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

— Robin Sloan

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

— Luc de Clapiers

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.

— Stephanie Savage

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

— Ray Bradbury

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle