Jincy Willett Quotes

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

All plots are cliche.

(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.