Monday, August 31, 2009

Sell Out

"Writers are always selling somebody out."
- Joan Didion

Sell out your hero and sell out your readers. Sell out your antagonist and sell out your books


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Friday, August 28, 2009

The Muddle

"Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end."

- Philip Larkin

Character is in the muddle.


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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Art of Words

"Literature is all, or mostly, about sex."
- Anthony Burgess

Literature is not at all about sex. If it was, then more people would write, but fewer would read. Literature is, instead, the art of words, painted with fingers and viewed in minds.


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