The Breakout Novelist Quotes

“In short, a premise is any single image, moment, feeling, or belief that has enough power and personal meaning for the author to set her story on fire, and propel it like a rocket for hundreds of pages.”
― Donald Maass, The Breakout Novelist: How to Craft Novels That Stand Out and Sell

“A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.”
― Donald Maass, The Breakout Novelist: How to Craft Novels That Stand Out and Sell