S6E4 – When to Kill a Character
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. – Alfred Hitchcock
Writing Roots
S6E3 – The Use of Prologues, Dreams, and Flashbacks
The art of prophecy is very difficult especially with respect to the future. – Mark Twain
S6E2 – Maintaining Momentum
You should write the fast stuff slow and the slow stuff fast. – Lee Child
S6E1 – Writing Dialogue
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life’s dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. – Marian Keyes
S5E9 – How Do I Help Authors I Support?
Every book, ever volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
S5 Bonus – Battle of the Hosts: Adverbs
The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. – Daniel Handler
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. – Stephen King
S5E8 – Is it All in My Head?
I think new authors are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you. – Asha Dornfest
S5E7 – What’s the Difference? Traditional vs. Self-Publishing
Books have a publishing standard, and every indie author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded. – Eeva Lancaster
S5E6 – How Do I Become a Writer? Pt. 2
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. – Oscar Wilde
S5E5 – How Do I Become a Writer?
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham