No tears in the
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Ernest Hemingway
Fiction Writers
There is nothing to
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway
Some of the best
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. Erma Bombeck
I\\’m in love. And
I’m in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers. Ellen Hopkins
That is many poets
That is many poets don’t know how to tell a story and they don’t have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn’t just you and also creating a narrative structure. … Read more
I think the deepest
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we’re not writing journalism when we’re making literature. Edward Hirsch
When I taught at
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to … Read more
We\\’re trying to make
We’re trying to make something that lasts in language and there’s no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it’s hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don’t also read poetry. Edward Hirsch
Fiction writers learn about
Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings of – express their own feelings and the feelings of their characters. Edward Hirsch
I have been successful
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly. Edgar Rice Burroughs