“ there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them ”
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.
~ David Morrell
Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.
He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death.- Frank Balenger
His blank face communicated an emptiness that could never be filled- Frank Balenger