I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like. Elizabeth George Read Quote
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn’t have found it so frightening to write. Elizabeth George Read Quote
Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first… You can’t do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end. Elizabeth George Read Quote
Art can’t be taught; passion can’t be taught; discipline can’t be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft. Elizabeth George Read Quote
I don’t think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate. Elizabeth George Read Quote
Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning. Elizabeth George Read Quote
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. Elizabeth George Read Quote
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif. Elizabeth George Read Quote
