Jincy Willett Quotes

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

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

Arithmetic is the death of story.

All plots are cliche.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.

I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I was a romantic idiot.

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

(D)ialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. 'When you're writing lines...you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.

(T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

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