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“It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.”

— Lara Biyuts, Forever Jocelyn, Share via Whatsapp

“Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at dinner or in the kitchen should be mentioned only in case if all this has a strong consequent relation to the plot, but as an author, I can’t help mentioning all this, with no particular reason, just for love for my characters, desiring to give them something nice and pleasant. Melancholy grows a platinum rose. Affection grows a double rose.”

— Lara Biyuts, Share via Whatsapp

“As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words. Yes, that s right, I agreed. I ve noticed that some authors favor particular words, making frequent use of them. Do you have a favorite? I nodded assuredly and shared my answer. BECAUSE. My interviewer looked surprised, as though he d expected an impressive adjective or some rare verb. That s your favorite word? Why? I tried not to smirk. Because.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich, Share via Whatsapp

“Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve.”

— Tommy Tran, Share via Whatsapp

“An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn t use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.”

— Chris Everheart, Share via Whatsapp

“The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej, Share via Whatsapp

“Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an off day. Trust me, good things will come of it.”

— Michelle M. Pillow, Share via Whatsapp

“I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.”

— Michelle M. Pillow, Share via Whatsapp

“Most humans do not realize it consciously, but expressions and eyes say far more than words. Tears may produce little water, but they are a flood of expression.”

— Ray Melnik, Eyes in This World, Share via Whatsapp

“Dad told me once that life is an accidental adventure, peppered with beautiful moments, but salted with stinging realities.”

— Ray Melnik, TO YOUR OWN SELF BE TRUE, Share via Whatsapp

“I knew the boys in my first novel, which I was writing at that time, weren t as raw as they could be, weren t *real.* I knew they were failing as characters because I wasn t pushing them to assume the reality that my real-life boys, Demond among them, experienced every day. I loved them too much: as an author, I was a benevolent God. I protected them from death, from drug addiction, from needlessly harsh sentences in jail for doing stupid, juvenile things like stealing four-wheel ATVs. All of the young Black men in my life, in my community, had been prey to these things in real life, and yet in the lives I imagined for them, I avoided the truth. I couldn t figure out how to love my characters less. How to look squarely at what was happening to the young Black people I knew in the South, and to write honestly about that. How to be an Old Testament God. To avoid all of this, I drank.”

— Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped, Share via Whatsapp

“It s all a game of balance—but in the end, you ll always find time for something you re passionate about.”

— Vardhan Kishore Agrawal, Share via Whatsapp

“What a tiny world it would be without imagination.”

— Ray Melnik, The Room, Share via Whatsapp