Martha Grimes (born May 2, 1931) is an American writer of detective fiction. She is best known for a series featuring Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, and Melrose Plant, an aristocrat turned amateur sleuth. (wikipedia)
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.
Writing is an antisocial act.
writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.
You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.
I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
I'll see something or hear something. Sometimes, it can be a color. Or a piece of music. Or an image of some kind. I see something, and it has huge emotional weight, although I have no idea why.