Quotes by : Jincy Willett

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print,....

Arithmetic is the death of story.

(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Jenny Marzen is who again?" Amy knew perfectly well who she was. Jenny Marzen was hot, hotter than Amy....

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

(T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success.....

If something was worth writing down, it was worth writing down in full. And she had a horror of lists--grocery....

When she was eighteen years old she had almost drowned in the Kennebec River, not because of the pummeling....