“The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingIdeasStoriesBigsFormMadnessCraftsAcceptableFlashBig Ideas Author:Taiye Selasi
“The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.” SoulStoriesHandsIncreaseCraftsGuarantees Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.” StoriesRememberChanceSimpleCollegeConsequenceDecidedVersionsCraftsTonightMore TimeYaleSimple Words Author:Phil Vischer
“In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.” KnowsNeedsDoeBookCharacterStoriesFiveFourCoupleWastePagesHundredShotsAverageCraftsComicCutePlotComic BookDemonstrationGagsConveying Author:Mark Waid
“I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.” IfsFeelsWritingStoriesFictionLove StoryCraftsWriting Fiction Author:Joan Larkin
“With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.” WayMindMadeBookSelfStoriesYoungPowerfulAwarenessSelf AwarenessProfoundExtraordinaryCraftsIronyIntensitySurprisingDebutMetaphoricalFerocityPersonal StoriesPlath Author:Meghan O'Rourke