Bulletin Board
Items worth noting
"We aren't trying only to tell a good story. We're trying to chronicle and illuminate the world, take readers into the lives of people they would never meet, write stories that are mirrors in which readers can glimpse a piece of unexpected humanity in others and, perhaps, even in themselves. If you do not have this deep commitment, it will be far easier for you to fall prey to making it up." -- Walt Harrington
"This world ... which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale ... All is telling. Do not doubt it." -- Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
"Every line should be a reported fact. If it's not, it's just pretty writing. It's like a comb-over." -- Anne Hull
"Everyone talks about active verbs. We don't need more active verbs. We need more truthful verbs." -- David Finkel