“I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.” WritingLongSpacePlansBenefitsNarrative Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindMayLittlesVoiceMysteryEffectsEasierProfoundWho I AmNarrativeAbidingOf My MindNarrative Voice Author:Gillian Welch
“Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.” WritingBookProblemAsksDifficultAttentionMedicinePassionateNarrativeRemarkableGravityMarvelousGrippingDifficult Questions Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.” WritingMayHas BeensFactsStoriesProcessReaderFitNarrative Book:Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989 Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989
“It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.” WayWritingNumbersMinesNarrativeEndeavorDisgustingPresidencyEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Robert Draper
“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles” WayWritingWellsPersonsFactsStoriesTogetherLeftRolesGonePaperCleverTalesNarrativePreservesTallLegendsSelectedEditedTall Tales Author:Steven Hall
“I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.” WritingPlayStoriesCareersNovelWrittenNarrativeProseLengthVersesCouplets Author:Charles de Lint
“I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.” WritingBelieveMeanBookCharacterFactsStoriesMightI BelieveSimpleEventsConflictGoldDepthSettingSettingsNarrativeOutsidersGood BookGood WritersMarginalized Author:Charles de Lint