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Jun. 20th, 2004 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyThere are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.
- Edward Hoagland
1. Dialogue should be brief.
2. It should add to the reader's present knowledge.
3. It should eliminate the routine exchanges of ordinary conversation.
4. It should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.
5. It should keep the story moving forward.
6. It should be revelatory of the speaker's character, both directly and indirectly.
7. It should show the relationships among people.
- Elizabeth Bowen
[On editors] Try to make them tell you what they really want. Most often they recognize what they don't want, but have a much harder time explaining what it is you're supposed to give them. Make them tell!
- Maureen Orth
One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
- Annie Dillard
Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do about it.
- Maxwell Perkins
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The short story makes a modest appeal for attention, slips up on your blind side and wrassles you to the mat before you know what's grabbed you.
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Edward Hoagland
1. Dialogue should be brief.
2. It should add to the reader's present knowledge.
3. It should eliminate the routine exchanges of ordinary conversation.
4. It should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.
5. It should keep the story moving forward.
6. It should be revelatory of the speaker's character, both directly and indirectly.
7. It should show the relationships among people.
- Elizabeth Bowen
[On editors] Try to make them tell you what they really want. Most often they recognize what they don't want, but have a much harder time explaining what it is you're supposed to give them. Make them tell!
- Maureen Orth
One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
- Annie Dillard
Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do about it.
- Maxwell Perkins
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The short story makes a modest appeal for attention, slips up on your blind side and wrassles you to the mat before you know what's grabbed you.
- Toni Cade Bambara
