#authors

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗

— John Gardner

#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#authors #books #heroine #love #stories

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. ↗

— Mo Yan

#authors #china #great #i #i think

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#desires #enabling #fulfills #god #heart

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted. ↗

— John Cusack

#intellectual #investigated #lot #may #people

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ↗

— David Viscott

#diversions #empty #entertaining #fill #life