For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control… I think it’s very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don’t know where it’ll go.
Margaret Atwood
Category: Quotes
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
A book is like a garden
There’s no need to plan everything out beforehand. Part of the fun is setting up high stakes without knowing the outcome. This way you’ll be right there with your protagonist, struggling to come up with solutions, even as the walls close in deliciously around you.
Julia Bartz
No need to plan everything
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
Joseph Conrad
My task
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry