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
Quotes
I wish I had known that your first draft, where you type ‘The End’ isn’t even close to being the end.
Trace Kerr
I wish I had known
[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