A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone. - Laura Miller
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.
- Laura Miller
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly… - Laura Miller
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly…
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. - Laura Miller
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose. - Laura Miller
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. - Laura Miller
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. - Laura Miller
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but th… - Laura Miller
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but th…
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with. - Laura Miller
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.
Dallas is a positive, get-it done city. - Laura Miller
Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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