99 Quotes by Laura Miller

A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.

Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.