“The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.”
~ Raymond Chandler
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ If You Want to Write, You Have to Read
“It’s just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you’re not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can’t even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I’m not reading just book after book.”
~ Stephen Graham Jones
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Creating a Character?
“When you’re building a character, or at least when I’m building a character, you start saying, ‘How am I going to make people like him?'” ~ John Sandford
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Key to Being a Successful Writer
Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today . . .and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success. ~ Jeff Abbott
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ How Do You End Each Chapter?
“I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.” ~ Nelson DeMille
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What is Interesting to You?
“What’s more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That’s what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it’s something we should be uncomfortable about.” ~ George Pelecanos
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Makes Your Characters Special?
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character’s need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Put Your Imagination to Work for You
“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” ~ John Green
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Have an Idea for a Real Story?
“I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it’s already been covered by the media, and if it’s not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?”
~ Ed McBain
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing as Storytelling
“When I write I pretend I’m telling a story to someone in the room and I don’t want them to get up until I’m finished.” ~ James Patterson
