Arithmetic is the death of story. Jincy Willett More Quotes by Jincy Willett More Quotes From Jincy Willett Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. Jincy Willett unbearable ifs Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. Jincy Willett sentences happens writing That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. Jincy Willett hard hard-work writing 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 party light thinking 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 writing song people 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 real reading sleep 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 you my-own girl hate I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen. Jincy Willett exactly queen zeitgeist
