I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

A map is not a journey.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.