Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes nose plot writer
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting. Patrick deWitt agentauthorbook share on social
The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project. Patrick deWitt carthabitidea Change image and share on social
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing. Patrick deWitt affectioncharacterdisappear Change image and share on social
My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot. Andrea Seigel apologeticcharacterizationentertainment Change image and share on social
I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest. Jane Seymour arrivecontestcrook share on social
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it. Pamela Sargent businessconnectdeal share on social