Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
– Stephen King
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 465
Become emotionally involved. If you don’t care about your characters, your readers won’t either.
– Judy Blume
Quotable 464
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
– James A. Michener
Quotable 463
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
– Cynthia Ozick
Quotable 462
If the reader doesn’t understand what you’re saying, you’re talking to yourself.
– Nigel Hamilton
Quotable 461
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.
– Flannery O’Connor
Quotable 460
You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
– Alice Munro
Quotable 459
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Quotable 458
Inspiration isn’t what gets your book written. Discipline is.
– Malinda Lo
Quotable 457
Stories are made of scenes, but scenes aren’t just a way to get from A-C, each scene is a story with its own beginning, middle and end, and its own emotional arc.
– J. Michael Straczynski