The scariest moment is always just before you start.
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy."
― Maya Angelou, The Paris Review Interviews, IV
The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
Just a couple of titles I'm familiar with. Please send more my way!
by Creative-Cycle403
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing- Margaret Atwood
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le Guin
Characters and Viewpoints by Orson Scott Card