Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
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Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Therefore the crucial distinction for me is not the difference between fact and fiction, but the distinction between fact and truth. Because facts can exist without human intelligence, but truth cannot.
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story,
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
In many classic short stories, the real action occurs in the silences.
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Rule No. 4: Never use three words when one will do. Be concise.
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Rule No. 2: Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration.
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Italo Calvino once remarked, “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Rule No. 3: Write what you know. Bellow once said, “Fiction is the higher autobiography.”
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Rule No. 10: Revise, revise, revise. I cannot stress this enough. Revision is when you do what you should have done the first time, but didn’t.
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.