The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.
Stephen King
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An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
Stephen King
An opening line should invite
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
Sometimes stories cry out
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.