Paul R Kohn’s Reviews > On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft > Status Update

"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“… Stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; description, which creates a sensory reality for the reader; and dialogue, which brings characters to life through their speech.”

“... While to write adverbs is human, to write ‘he said’ or ‘she said’ is divine.”

“…The paragraph, not the sentence, is the basic unit of writing – the place where coherence begins and words stand a chance of becoming more than mere words.”