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...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.Jincy Willett
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Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.Jincy Willett
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(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.Jincy Willett
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Arithmetic is the death of story.Jincy Willett
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All plots are cliche.Jincy Willett
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(T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college... Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.Jincy Willett
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(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.Jincy Willett
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Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.Jincy Willett
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Actually, the Sniper's sense of humor frightened Amy more than anything else. The parody of Carla's poem had been witty, the rudeness of Marvy's critique outlandish, and she was still, for some reason, focused on that "youse" in the Sniper's counterfeit email. "Youse" was like a spectral elbow to Amy's ribs. Dangerous, malevolent people should not be amusing. In order to be humorous, you had to have perspective, to be able to stand outside yourself and your own needs and grudges and fears and see yourself for the puny ludicrous creature you really are. How could somebody do that and still imagine himself entitled to harry, to wound, to kill? .Jincy Willett
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Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.Jincy Willett