Victoria Mixon > Quotes

“If you've never hurt anyone, put down your keyboard and go apply for sainthood. You are the wrong kind of liar to be a writer.”
― Victoria Mixon

“Most of the great writers wrote the same character over and over again under different names, in different plots, throughout their lives. Those particular characters have the motivations those particular writers understand. Deeply. Profoundly. In the magnificent, complex manner necessary to write about it.”
― Victoria Mixon

“What Hemingway really did right, though, was work at fiction as a craft to be learned thoroughly and painstakingly throughout his life.”
― Victoria Mixon, Art & Craft of Writing Fiction: First Writer's Manual

“You know the little doohickey with the floppy ears that plugs the blogosphere, Twitter, and Wikipedia into our computers like a cable plugging the Matrix into the back of our necks? Reach right over and yank that sucker out.”
― Victoria Mixon, Art & Craft of Writing: Secret Advice for Writers