no one dies happy, you can only die well
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.
Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.
We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.