Writing

"Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts." - Stephen King

"Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis

"When did you last read a book of poetry or take time, of an afternoon, for an essay or two?" - Ray Bradbury

"What a story is “about” is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring." - George Saunders

"Still, I believe the first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season." - Stephen King

"A well-fed man keeps and calmly gives forth his infinitesimal portion of eternity. It sounds big in the summer night. And it is, as it always was down the ages, when there was a man with something to tell, and ones, quiet and wise, to listen." - Ray Bradbury

"Here is the stuff of originality. For it is in the totality of experience reckoned with, filed, and forgotten, that each man is truly different from all others in the world." - Ray Bradbury

"Plots and hooks yield the same desideratum: they set the reader a question, with the implicit assurance that the question will be answered." - Martin Amis