The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The right way means setting the words down as zestfully as possible, even if you must make changes later. The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Thoreau Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. Joan Didion Get it down. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.