66 Quotes About Good-writing

The sky grows dark over the city as Janey tells me her story. Teh beast was supposed to help their community. Something that would look good in a brochure, I suppose. But instead, it cut loose, took out in to the Williamsburg night. Janey and the kids went after it , and when they finally caught up what does it do? The thing ate a hipster.

It's not always so easy," she said softly."Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.

She smiled. "How...cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.

That sound - the swift, shocking report of gunfire - called the scattered, irascible, permanently seeking part of his mind into focus like nothing else.

If you can't understand a study, the problem is with the study, not with you.

My two keys to writing a good story: 1. Keep it simple, 2. Let the story be the star, not the words you use.

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.

Few knew that she was broken. Whatever power had blessed her, divine or otherwise, was gone-or at least out of reach. Her followers were kept at a distance so they could not see that her eyes were dark hollows, that her breath came in frightened gasps. She walked slowly, tentatively, her driftwood bones fragile in her body, this sickly girl upon whom all their hopes rested.

When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw...