Thursday, October 20, 2011

Writing

 There are only two types of stories: the ones where the characters begin unhappy and end happy, which are the ones that sell, and the ones where the characters begin happy and end unhappy, which are the ones English majors read. (attribution unknown)

"I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit," Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 
Stephen King's web site

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