Zitat des Tages von Lisa Kleypas:
No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.
When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.