40 Quotes by K.M. Weiland

Once you understand how plot, character, and theme all work together, chances are good that, if you get one of them right, you’ll get all three right.

If your characters don’t have a response – in speech, in thought, or in action – to the events happening to them, they haven’t been touched by those events, and the reader will likewise remain untouched and uninvolved.” – Beth Hill.

Mist cloaked the top, like diaphanous scarves upon ebony shoulders, hiding but not obscuring the city that crowned the summit and spilled down the side of the hill.

What he should do was punch himself in his own face.

Few of us would want to subsist on a steady diet of tragedy, but all of us are better for having cleansed our reading palate with the astringent bite of these unflinching portrayals of bittersweet truth.

People only believe in heroes when they win.

But the world keeps on spinning and people keep on living – through worse things than this.

A story isn’t ready to be written until you’ve been able to add at least two or three layers of juxtaposition.

Conflict” and “tension” are often used interchangeably, not so much because they’re the same thing – because they’re not – but because they’re kissing cousins that fulfill similar functions within the story.