“Si la magia existe, habita en la escritura.”
“Escribir es un gimnasio para el alma.”
“When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.”
“Writing is one method to discover ideas that a person previously never consciously considered.”
“Writing is easy; you just have to play chess with words,box with the keys and wrestle with the ideas”
“If a plot is a novel s skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.”
“The Tao of writing.. Write only for the joy of writing which then become a joy to read...”
“The beginning is not where your story starts but where you story starts to get interesting.”
“The art of writing: Putting one word in front of the other, and following your noise .”
“The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you ve already got.”
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”
“Don’t forget to be specific…Details. Put in all the details. The boys appreciate all that detailed daily life sh*t they don’t get anymore. If you’ve got a teacher you’re hot for, tell ‘em what her hair looks like, what her legs look like, what she eats for lunch. If she’s teaching you geometry, tell ‘em how she draws a bloody triangle on the blackboard. If you went down the shop for a bag of sweets yesterday, did you ride your pushee? Did you go by foot? Did you see a rainbow along the way? Did you buy gobstoppers or clinkers or caramels? If you had a good meat pie last week was it steak and peas or curry or mushroom and beef? You catchin’ my drift? Details.”
“The concept of good versus evil is a handy construct for framing a narrative. When you see someone applying that concept to real-world events, however, be aware that you re in the presence of a peddler of fiction.”
“The world is our classroom. Like the world, every piece of writing is a work in progress.”
“Images are meanings in the art of Gerald Murnane, who says bluntly (in Words and Silk): The only things that really interest me are images .”
“Writing isn’t about thinking up a story, it’s about turning whatever you’re thinking into a story.”
“There s no story unless something is out of place.”