Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk …

- Jincy Willett

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

- Jincy Willett

You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some pe…

- Jincy Willett

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

- Jincy Willett

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the ficti…

- Jincy Willett

Arithmetic is the death of story.

- Jincy Willett

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

- Jincy Willett