"An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages."

-- John Grisham

#Writing Quotes #Suspense Quotes #Hints Quotes

“I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.”
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.66, Open Road Media
“I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.”
“Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.”
“These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.”
“If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.”
“I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.”
“Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.”

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