Live the Scene As You Write It

No tears in the writer, 

no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

ROBERT FROST

goodread: Robert Frost quotes

Slip Into a Dream

"We read five words on the first page of a really good novel

and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page;we begin to see images... We slip into a dream, forgetting the room we are sitting in... We recreate, with minor changes the vivid and continuous dream the writer worked out in his mind and captured in language so that other human beings, whenever they feel like it, may open his book and dream that dream again."

JOHN GARDNER

goodreads: On Becoming a Novelist