“Writing is hard work. It's smoothing and polishing and tucking in the elbows of each paragraph. It's voice and technique and practice. It's mastering style with form, power with control. And I think I know what it's all for. It's for getting closer to the page. It's for getting closer to yourself, t…”— Alex Magnin, thoughtcatalog.com
“The secret, I believe, in writing well about trouble, is choosing carefully the kind of character who will be most troubled by his/her trouble. What is a trial to one person, might be downright relaxing to another. The trouble in your story must push the character to a point where s/he will make a d…”— Aaron Gwyn, glimmertrain.com
“The writer is always a careful observer, but if you are constantly evacuating your imagination, your eyes and ears grow even sharper, and you lean forward with hunger for every experience, knowing that it will offer up a card to add to your hand. This is, after all, a gambler's trade. All in. Always…”— Benjamin Percy, glimmertrain.com
“My work as a sculptor has trained me to write in the same way. When I start a piece I work it from all directions. I jump back and forth from section to section in no particular order. I leave broad ideas and impressions everywhere. I make notations and draw charts. I don’t write in complete sentenc…”— Annie Weatherwax, blog.pshares.org