There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
I wish I knew how to quit you.
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.
Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.