Quotes by : Jincy Willett

All plots are cliche.

Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my....

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.

I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between....

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

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

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

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever,....