Writing Comes From Reading, And Reading Is

If You Can't Fix It, You Have To Stand It.

What We Fear We Often Rage Against.

What I Find To Be Very Bad Advice Is The Snappy Little Sentence, 'write What You Know.' It Is The Most Tiresome And Stupid Advice That Could Possibly Be Given. If We Write Simply About What We Know We Never Grow. We Don't Develop Any Facility For Languages, Or An Interest In Others, Or A Desire To Travel And Explore And Face Experience Head-on. We Just Coil Tighter And Tighter Into Our Boring Little Selves. What One Should Write About Is What Interests One.

You Know, One Of The Tragedies Of Real Life Is That There Is No Background Music.

If You Get The Landscape Right, The Characters Will Step Out Of It, And They'll Be In The Right Place.