I have learned to trust in the ordinary darkness of a bedroom…says Doireann Ní Ghríofa QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Whenever my writing snarls itself into a tangle, I always take the same approach—I carry that horrible knot to bed and quench the lamp. Then, I wait. In the dark, … Continue reading
Why Books are just perfect – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable … Continue reading
Publishers Are Not Your Friends – from a publisher’s open rejection letter QUOTES FOR WRITERS
…all we can suggest is that you don’t trust publishers. They’re not your friends, and they’re not even that great at spotting what readers will like. If they reject your … Continue reading
…everything you want, you are already that…said Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look … Continue reading
Writing slow “so that I can look back on what sort of botch I made…” William Glass QUOTES FOR WRITERS
..I write slowly because I write badly. I have to rewrite everything many, many times just to achieve mediocrity. Time can give you a good critical perspective, and I often … Continue reading
It’s a Shark-filled Lagoon Out There warns Margaret Atwood QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you’ve already done the good writing, you’ll still need the good luck. It’s a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your … Continue reading
The Only Time to Write – Isabel Paterson QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The fact is writing can only be done during the time when one ought to be doing something else.Isabel Paterson Photo credit: Jonathan Francisca on Unsplash
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a writer? Mary McCarthy knew and we do too. QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The worst thing that can happen to a writer is to become a Writer.Mary McCarthy Image credit: THE PASSION OF CREATION, LEONID PASTERNAK Circa 1880.
“…Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had…” E.B.White on the benefits of joining a library QUOTES FOR WRITERS
A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. But … Continue reading
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves – F. Scott Fitzgerald QUOTES FOR WRITERS
We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives – experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time anyone else has been so … Continue reading
The Art of Making Readers Feel Pleasantly Uncomfortable…M.R.James HALLOWEEN QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or … Continue reading
Why Books Are Our Best Friends – Alain de Botton QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Even those who love us get us wrong. They tell us who we are but miss things out. They claim to know what we need, but forget to ask us … Continue reading
What I am…what we all are…James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. James Baldwin
Why a Physical Dictionary is better – Rachel del Valle QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Wikipedia and Google answer questions with more questions, opening up pages of information you never asked for. But a dictionary builds on common knowledge, using simple words to explain more … Continue reading
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