Wednesday Wisdom – Page 3

“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of […]

“Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun […]

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a […]

“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will […]

“Making people believe the unbelievable is not trick; it’s work. …Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned […]

“Fiction is about stuff that’s screwed up.” —Nancy Kress Someone commented recently that researching the dark things must be terrible. […]

Q: Why do you write strong female characters? A: Because you’re still asking me that question. —Joss Whedon […]

“It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the […]

“Progress isn’t always what we expect.” — Peg Brantley When I considered boxing up my last manuscript it felt as […]

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anaïs Nin Even a suspense novelist/thriller writer […]