"It’s like making a movie: All sorts of accidental things will happen after you’ve set up the cameras. So you get lucky. Something will happen at the edge of the set and perhaps you start to go with that; you get some footage of that. You come into it accidentally. You set the story in motion, and as you’re watching this thing begins, all these opportunities will show up."

— Kurt Vonnegut in Advice to Writers, one of 9 essential books on writing well. (via curiositycounts)