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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know. — Nancy Kress

... Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself. — Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence. — Nancy Kress

Korsakoff's syndrome, — Nancy Kress

The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task. — Nancy Kress

But children disappeared all the time, — Nancy Kress

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up. — Nancy Kress

Vision, sometimes called talent, is not a teachable attribute. What — Nancy Kress

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect. — Nancy Kress

Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period. — Nancy Kress

An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again. — Nancy Kress

grandiose paranoid schizophrenia. — Nancy Kress

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff. — Nancy Kress

A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. — Nancy Kress

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. — Nancy Kress

The CEO of Monsanto had been disemboweled alive. — Nancy Kress

when I waked, I cried to dream again. — Nancy Kress

World-wide warming moved tropical diseases into northern areas which had no defenses against them. — Nancy Kress

No races, few permitted variant alleles. Anything else arouses hostility, — Nancy Kress

Throw enough scientific gibberish at non-scientists and they always faltered. — Nancy Kress

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them. — Nancy Kress

Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation. — Nancy Kress

Religions - most of them, anyway - had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint. — Nancy Kress

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel. — Nancy Kress

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life. — Nancy Kress

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly. — Nancy Kress

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit. — Nancy Kress

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent. — Nancy Kress

Trust in God was a great excuse for sloth and lack of planning. — Nancy Kress

strange attractor - do — Nancy Kress