Jincy Willett Professions : AuthorBorn : December 31, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Jincy Willett Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. Jincy Willett unbearableifs Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. Jincy Willett sentenceshappenswriting Arithmetic is the death of story. Jincy Willett arithmeticstories That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. Jincy Willett hardhard-workwriting You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do. Jincy Willett partylightthinking Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.' Jincy Willett writingsongpeople Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett) Jincy Willett realreadingsleep Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing. Jincy Willett youmy-owngirlhate I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen. Jincy Willett exactlyqueenzeitgeist Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson authorAll Authors
