I wish I had known that your first draft, where you type ‘The End’ isn’t even close to being the end.
Trace Kerr
Category: Quotes
[The active voice is the] vigorous voice, unashamed to say whodunit. Passive voice is preferred by the weak, the cowardly, ashamed to name the fink who told them what they are evasively telling you.
John Bremner
The active voice is
Strong storytelling is often about scattering seeds that eventually bloom into a full garden. A brief mention of something here, another brief mention of it later, and so on… until the reader is walking through that garden.
Deborah Halverson
Strong storytelling is often about
The story you often get is not the story you were chasing but one that ends up being even better.
Anthony Bourdain
The story you often get
Books are gateways. They are doors. You can open them and step into another place and time. Another world.
Chris Riddell