You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman….

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your ….

Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create an authentic voice. Som….

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-lif….

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth..

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition..

The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely bec….

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right..

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world..

But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in….

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page..

You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head..