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“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.”

“I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.”

Giving Stills Reason Whole Novel Giving Up Stuck Beach Not Sure Stubborn Junk

Author:Alex Garland

“One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.”

Knows Writing May Real Enough Character Use Remember Views Novel Majors Stuck Real Life Minors Can Not Interiors Decoration Toothpaste

Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.”

Ifs Would Be Novel Stuck

Book:The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel

Source: The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel

“We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.”

Thinking Want Writing Believe Persons Ideas Self Hard Lying Belief Novel Century Awareness Serious Self Awareness Stuck Narrative Falsehood 21st Century Thinking Person

Author:Michael Helm

“I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would happen to him after Bad Monkey. And I liked the idea of him still trying to get his detective job back while he's stuck on roach patrol.”

Trying Stills Ideas Character Happens Jobs Attitude Novel Stuck Curious Monkeys Detectives Main Characters Roaches Consecutive

Author:Carl Hiaasen