“I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.” KnowsWayEndsMatterCharacterStoriesInterestingCrimeCommittedBoringPlotJust BeingEntertainers Author:Jo Nesbo
“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.” KnowsWritingMatterSpeakBrainSubjectsCalmBlockPlotTranslationsSubject Matter Author:Tea Obreht
“When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.” KnowsDoeOpportunityInterestingDevelopmentReaderSuspensePlotShiftingGet RealReally InterestingNarrators Author:Sara Zarr
“I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.” KnowsCharacterSeemsLanguageSoundPagesPlotRudeJuvenileAdverbs Author:Colum McCann