If you have several ways you can take a situation, and you pick the one that cheats the characters, the audience, and common sense, you need to pick again.
– Jamahl Epsicokhan
Tag: way
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
haiku 540
a migraine a day
is no way
to write haiku
Quotable 414
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
Quotable 406
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
– Charles Bukowski
Quotable 392
There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
– Tobias Wolff
Quotable 370
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
– Anne Enright