“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
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“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
― Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
― Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
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“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Death in the Afternoon
― Death in the Afternoon
Alison’s 2025 Year in Books
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