Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction Quotes

“Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“I create things out of boredom with reality and with the sameness of routine and objects around me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“Every failure teaches something. 12”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“It is then good to remember that artists have existed and persisted, like the snail and coelacanth and other changing forms of organic life since long before governments were dreamed of.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“If the writer thinks about his material long enough, until it becomes a part of his mind and wakes up thinking about it- then at least when he starts to work, it will flow out as if by itself.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“A book is not a thing of one sitting, like a poem, but a longish thing which takes time and energy and since it takes skill, too, the first effort or maybe the second may not find a market.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“A book is a really long continuous process, which ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer. Henry James or Thomas Mann could easily write it, but not I. 'I'm thinking of writing it from the point of view of someone at the hotel who observes her,' I said, but this did not fill me with much hope. Then my friend, who is not a writer, suggested I try it from the omniscient author's point of view.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

“write down all those slender ideas.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction