“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

Stephen King

“One of the joys of reading comes when a writer takes you through some little back alley of life that you never knew existed.”

Renni Browne

“…coherence in the world [an author] creates is constituted of two concepts he holds, which may be in conflict: one is his world view, his sense of the way the world is; and the other is his sense of morality, the way the world ought to be.”

Rust Hills

“The idea that is proposed, supposed, or speculated about in a fiction may be simple, and idealistic, like the notion in Cinderella that the good and beautiful will triumph. Or it may be profound and unprovable, like the theme in Oedipus Rex that man cannot escape his […]

“Like fiction itself, human dialogue attempts to marry logic to emotion.”

Janet Burroway

“…almost every occurrence of such phrases as ‘she noticed’ and ‘she saw’ [should] be suppressed in favor of direct presentation of the thing seen.”

John Gardner