In The Early Morning On The Lake

Good Dialogue Is Not Real Speech-it's The Illusion Of Real Speech.

Find What Gave You Emotion; What The Action Was That Gave You Excitement. Then Write It Down Making It Clear So That The Reader Can See It Too. Prose Is Architecture, Not Interior Decoration, And The Baroque Is Over.

You Did Not Kill The Fish Only To Keep Alive And To Sell For Food, He Thought. You Killed Him For Pride And Because You Are A Fisherman. You Loved Him When He Was Alive And You Loved Him After. If You Love Him, It Is Not A Sin To Kill Him. Or Is It More?

Everyone My Age Had Written A Novel And I Was Still Having Difficulty Writing A Paragraph.

People Who Write Fiction, If They Had Not Taken It Up, Might Have Become Very Successful Liars.