You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
– Alice Munro
Tag: get
Quotable 458
Inspiration isn’t what gets your book written. Discipline is.
– Malinda Lo
Quotable 448
It’s amazing how much you can get away with that could be considered polemic as long as it’s funny. As soon as it ceases to be funny, your readers start feeling preached to and rebel.
– Lionel Shriver
Quotable 428
Part of being a writer is getting yourself quiet enough and out of the way enough that the character can just speak.
– Callie Khouri
Quotable 425
Writing doesn’t get easier with time; every novel is a first novel.
– John le Carré
Quotable 422
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.
– William Zinsser
Quotable 394
One reason I think I don’t get blocked is that I’m not afraid to write bad, early drafts in order to get to the good.
– Deborah Reed
haiku 498
food run –
sunshine, rainbow
after we get wet
haiku 497
hot night
little fan
gets no rest