5th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, writing, Heidi Pitlor |
"Write with energy. I think energy is one of those things we don't talk about enough, and it's so important for the reader. You can feel a writer's energy on the page."
"I talk a lot about our attention spans, and how busy everything is in the world right now, and how much is compelling us in our day-to-day life. ... Short stories have to compete with things like this. So I want to feel like there's an urgency to the writing. And that I need to read this story."
"It's always been really important to me to write something that will keep the reader turning pages and keep the reader interested."
"You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next."
"I start with almost nothing: A question I want asked, or a feeling, a sort of weird conflicted feeling that I have and I want to explore. So I think all my books start that way. And then, as it always does, the book takes on a life of its own."
"Write what interests you, not what you think should interest you. Because there's so much that we feel like we should do. And you get into real trouble as a writer when you're writing what you should be writing. Not what you want to be writing."
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