Colleen O'Connor quotes

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.
-- Colleen O'Connor

#Block #Writing #Narrative

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.