Just a fly-by post today of two great quotes: one each from two of the best authors of popular fiction out there. Both quotes are culled from a list of 90 quotes (from various authors) collected by Writer's Digest. If you're up for sifting through the whole list, go check it out. In the meantime, I'll pass on these two:
“It’s wise to plan early on where you’d like to go, do serious self-analysis to determine what you want from a writing career. … When I began, I thought I’d be comfortable as a straight genre writer. I just kept switching genres as my interests grew. I’ve since been fortunate that—with a great deal of effort—I’ve been able to break the chains of genre labeling, and do larger and more complex books. But it’s difficult, and few people who develop straight genre reputations ever escape them.”
—Dean Koontz“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there’s a house under there, and I’m pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That’s how I feel. It’s like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: ‘If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.’”
—Stephen King
