“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.” WritingYearsHoursImaginationNovelStreetsLandBordersShoppingFactoriesWorkplaceUnrealCathedralsExpeditions Book:An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.” WritingMeanMatterLiteratureFictionNovelStreetsConversationNo Matter WhatAutobiographyBiographiesDetectivesDetective Fiction Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante
“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.” WayWantGivingWritingLittlesMomentsTogetherCoursesInterestingLaughingPiecesMysteryStreetsReaderPagesSurpriseInsightObservationOne WayPlotTendernessPayoff Author:Christopher Bollen
“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.” PeopleKnowsWritingLooksDifferentTreeSkyStreetsGrantedBeachShopsOaksOak Tree Author:Neil Gaiman