“I can’t think of anything else necessary to a writer except a story and the will and the ability to tell it.”
Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel
Tag Archives: On Writing
On Writing to an Audience who Thinks God is Dead -Flannery O’Connor-
“One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.”
― Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
On Aiming for the Whole Person -N.D. Wilson-
“This is simplistic but it is a starting point. Aim for the whole person. Aim for the throat and the diaphragm, and the stomach. Make people nervous, breathless, and hungry. Or just mad.”
N.D. Wilson
