Writing

"The other me Demands emergence constantly." - Ray Bradbury

"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

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - 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

"I circled around summer noons and October midnights, sensing that there somewhere in the bright and dark seasons must be something that was really me." - Ray Bradbury

"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

"The most important is that the writer’s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader’s. Running a close second was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes... See more