Suzanne Uchytil

“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand...... There is a blow behind the blow.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."

(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
― Anton Chekhov