Mark Strand
Author: cwq
“Writing fiction – the whole creative process – I find very difficult. Physically and mentally, it is an enormous effort of imagination. Writing a good sentence is not simple.”
Paul Theroux
“The aim of literature […] is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
Donald Barthelme
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
Stephen King
“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness — when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.”
J.B.Priestley
“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.”
J.B.Priestley
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
William Faulkner
“A notion implanted in my brain. It was the thought that fiction can sometimes tell the truth better than facts.”
Tony Hillerman