I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.
G.D. FalksenTags: humor inspirational horror humorous pulp-fiction steampunk
From the first she showed a curious sensitivity to what, I suppose, may be called the 'influences' of the place. She said it 'smelled' of ghosts and warlocks.
A. MerrittTags: sci-fi pulp-fiction
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible.
His train of thought, the story's lifeline, beer-lubricated but no whit impeded, flashed and sputtered and coursed ahead like lightning in a topaz mist, and the loose fingers and hiccuping keys followed as fast as they could. ("The Penny-A-Worder")
Tags: writing writers fiction fiction-writing pulp-fiction pulp
Those Zolofts make me so fucking hungry. I’ve gained 20 pounds – it’s totally out of control.”
George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd.
Tags: crime-fiction pulp-fiction scandinavian-mysteries
He was one of those men who can both get money and keep it. He must have been a millionaire. He kept accounts. He introduced a post-office atmosphere into his shady dealings. Not a stamp, not a pen-nib escaped him, and he would stay up half the night to figure out what had happened to a mislaid farthing. You cannot conceive the caution and the meanness of that man! He would have made a Syrian pawn-broker appear like Diamond Jim Brady. But he had brains, and also nerve. At the same time, he was as smooth as glycerine. He looked like an octopus — he had a dirtyish pallor, no shape, evil eyes, and a beak. In shaking hands with him, you felt that six or seven other hands were investigating your pockets while a dozen eyes watched you. He was feared. He made money out of everything. But he was still unknown to the police.
Gerald KershTags: crime-fiction pulp-fiction
The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)
John GardnerTags: books writing fiction authors instruction craft craftsmanship pulp-fiction technique pulp how-to-write genre-fiction how-to-write-fiction low-brow
Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.
James EllroyTags: french noir los-angeles pulp-fiction crime-thriller noir-fiction
You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.
Mike CareyTags: reading books writing stories pop-culture pulp-fiction
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