What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

- Stephen Graham Jones

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working…

- Stephen Graham Jones

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often f…

- Stephen Graham Jones

When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking…

- Stephen Graham Jones

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

- Stephen Graham Jones

The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences,…

- Stephen Graham Jones

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

- Stephen Graham Jones

There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What …

- Stephen Graham Jones

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of t…

- Stephen Graham Jones