I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
From Lisa Unger
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.
Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
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