All meaning, in the best fiction, comes from—as Faulkner said—the heart in conflict with itself.
John Gardner
Quotes
…quiet books need to be emotionally searing.
Jean Feiwel
…quiet books need
The need to know is what keeps readers interested in your novel. Don’t let them down.
Janice Hardy
The need to know
Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.
Jack London
Keep a notebook
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J.K. Rowling