#fiction-writing

"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page."

"The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't."

"It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written."

"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are."