If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?
Michael MoorcockIntroduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.
Michael MoorcockI think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
Michael MoorcockTreasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.
Michael MoorcockIt remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
Michael Moorcock