I love how revision helps you know your characters better. It’s magical. And how good, thorough but positive critiques spur you on. That is magical too.
Barbara Herkert
Category: Quotes
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you’re a bit larger than you used to be.
Gregory Maguire
Books fall open
Being a writer is understanding that you will have moments where writing is all you can do, and times where it’s the last thing you want to do, and both are a part of the journey.
Joy Fanning
Being a writer is
Some stories flow out like a river and some drip-drop like molasses.
Lizzie Brooks
Some stories flow out
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
Thomas Hardy