If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong.
Jamie FordTag: interview
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.
Gabriel García MárquezTag: writing inspiration interview
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.
Elmore LeonardTag: humor writing inspiration interview starting hemingway interview-in-wsj-01-13-2013 wall-street-journal
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Ed SheeranTag: interview encouragement
He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about to get laid.
Gillian FlynnTag: interview journalist
Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
Lemony Snicket[T]o give the children a sense of magic. Nobody attends to this enough. They give them too much realism. They can see it all on the box, they can see frightful things there. But they’re not being given a world to escape to … the world of the imagination. Children must have an escape line somewhere.
Nicholas Stuart GrayTag: interview
For me the genre of romance is about the characters. It’s about following a journey between two people and watching them grow and develop and have their lives change for the better because of their presence in each other’s world.
Samantha YoungNot everyone can be relaxed or comfortable enough to seriously listen to the (debate or interview) answers.
Jim LehrerI’m always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.
Ernest HemingwayTag: reading books interview vanity-fair
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