writer’s block

“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

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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

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“I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.” ~ Nelson DeMille

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“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

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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.

~ Robert Crais

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“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” ~ John Green

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“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

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“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

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“Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.” ~ Tom Clancy

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“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.”

~ Zane Grey

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