Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?
Roman PayneMots clés books writing writers interview heroism writer escape publishing flame roman novelist heroic roman-payne novel-writing author-interview tediousness voluptuousness
I tell my girls when you have done everything humanly possible, when you have fought with everything in you for something you truly believe in and it is still out of reach, it's time to become a feather. Let the wind guide you for awhile....
Susan GoldsmithMots clés inspirational angels author-interview
Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has helped enable us to jettison compassion as a national value while still maintaining a vision of ourselves as essentially well-meaning. It hasn't taken a whole lot of common sense, given the evidence of the last few years, to puzzle out the heartlessness of unregulated capitalism, and yet our political class has embraced even more fervently the notion of every man for himself, even given the ever-growing numbers such a philosophy leaves behind.
Jim ShepardMots clés compassion capitalism author-interview o-henry-2012
Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn’t as good.
Alistair CrossMots clés horror author-interview alistair-cross
Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is generally written by folks who grew up on horror; books, movies, etc. You can’t simply decide to write—in any genre—if you don’t first have an understanding of the topic and a strong mental backlog of reference.
Alistair CrossMots clés horror author-interview alistair-cross
They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.
Alistair CrossMots clés writing horror author-interview alistair-cross
Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this.
Alistair CrossMots clés writing horror writing-process author-interview alistair-cross
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