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Say it new or say it straight.

The function of suspense is to put the reader in danger of an overfull bladder.

Be sure you don't stop the story while describing. You are a storyteller, not an interior decorator.

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience ... is increasingly visual.

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Parents begin by loving their children; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

Tension produces instantaneous anxiety, and the reader finds it delicious.

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

A writer writes what other people only think.

A writer who always has his characters "walk" is missing opportunities.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing

You can never know enough about your characters.

The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.