“I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.” Quote by Marilu Henner
“Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.” IfsArtArt IsResponsibleBeing Responsible Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.” PeopleFictionPovertyRichEnvironmentDangerousTruth IsCleaningAlcoholismPresentingReservations Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.” ArtEndsPiecesPercentCraftsCarrieNinety Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.” RealMatterSportsFootballBasketballBaseballDespise Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.” ThinkingWorldRealEndsCharacterStoriesLetting GoDrawsAskingUnable To Let Go Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.” ThinkingWritingLooksLongImportantMatterHardLostEasyStuffEffectsShapesSentences Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.” WantStoriesReaderLuckGood Story Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.” WorldFeelsTwoRealLyingEasyEasierConfusedMaintainingEasy To GetTwo Worlds Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking up again around ten, going until a touch after midnight. I rarely write in the morning, unless I'm on deadline. I do like rewriting in the morning, though. Guess it's the way my brain's put together. Or, the way it's falling apart.” WayWritingSometimesTogetherFallThreeHoursBrainMorningNovelFourTenLunchMidnightFalling ApartDeadlineRewriting Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.” LittlesStoriesRememberLinesSimpleAttentionRichAchieveEffectsDrawsHumbleSentencesProseDense Author:Stephen Graham Jones