My first and biggest
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. Etgar Keret
Fiction Writing
No tears in the
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Ernest Hemingway
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
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
If you write one
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Good writing is supposed
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow
Writing is like driving
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow
Find the key emotion;
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love deadlines. I
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by. Douglas Adams
Fiction writing feels more
Fiction writing feels more honest to me. David James Duncan