Kim

“A mystery reader, confronted with a large mass of sudden detail, is going to go—subconsciously, at least—”Aha! somewhere in all of this the writer has planted a Clue!”, and look for that; a reader trained exclusively in mainstream literary fiction is likely to say, “Aha! all this emphasis must point to something of Thematic Importance!”, but an experienced reader of science fiction is going to assume that he or she is meant to take all of those details and out of them construct a world.

Which is why the writer of a science-fiction mystery with literary ambitions is trying to do a quadruple somersault off the trapeze without a net.”
― Debra Doyle

“If you have ever been disappointed in a badly-made setting, you know the felling of betrayal and the sting of wasted time. When you invest time and money in a fictional work, only to discover the world is poorly made, it's a betrayal of your trust.”
― Steven Savage, Way With Worlds Book 1: Crafting Great Fictional Settings

“Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, "Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”
― Amy Joy