“The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.” ThinkingInterestingNovelKeysFindingsSurprising Author:Mark Schaefer
“Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.” WritingWholeCharacterLanguageNovelPiecesFindingsNovel WritingAgonizing Author:Jonathan Tropper
“I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.” HardSufferingNovelFindingsSentencesItching Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.” IfsKnowsStoriesFunGrowsNovelFindingsMake SenseBoredShort Story Author:Nicholas Royle