Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.