“I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.” IfsKnowsWellsCertainFictionNovelFeetCrimeReaderEasierTricksGraphicCrime FictionParametersDisgustedGraphic Novels Author:Denise Mina
“Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.” WellsLooksDoeTurnsFictionLet MeClaimsResponsibleLuckSakeTricksFancySpiteSatisfyingSurprisingPuzzlesShiftingDiversionLet Me Down Author:Alice Munro
“It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.” IfsWritingTryingI CanBookReadingFictionNovelImagineTricksGarbage Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.” FictionBreakComplicatedTricksBreaking DownElusive Author:Ben Marcus