James Thayer Quotes

• On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."

  James Thayer

  Fall, Writing, Blow

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• I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

  James Thayer

  Ideas, Plot, Needs

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• None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

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  Sage, Behavior, China

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• My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

  James Thayer

  Ideas, Novel, Compelling

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• I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

  James Thayer

  Ideas, Suffering, Next

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• I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

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  Writing, Years, Four

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• When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.

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  Escritura, Escuela, Años

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• I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

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  Strong, Writing, Class

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• My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

  James Thayer

  Writing, Class, Skills

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