Quotes on Fiction Writing

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.