Drained Completely For Two Hours
“Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”–Roald Dahl
Dignity
“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.”–Ernest Hemingway
Writing
“I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.”–Italo Calvino
Writing Myself into a Corner
Writing Myself into a Corner Agatha Christie. Her name is synonymous with the mystery novel. Mention Louis L’Amour and westerns spring to mind. If I name a specific author—unless you are true devotee of that author—you will probably associate that person with a specific genre. But did you know that Agatha Christie wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott? Louis L’Amour also wrote boxing stories, action adventure stories set in the South Pacific, and historical fiction that had nothing…