Don’t be Ashamed of your TBR Book Pile – David Quammen QUOTES FOR WRITERS AND READERS
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its … Continue reading
What Reading Teaches you – James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS (AND READERS)
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented … Continue reading
Fiction and Non-Fiction – the Difference Aminatta Forna QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Don DeLillo once quipped that a fiction writer starts with meaning and manufactures events to represent it; the writer of creative nonfiction starts with events, then derives meaning from them. … Continue reading
The Best Moments – Alan Bennett on Reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular … Continue reading
Rejection Never Ends…Advice from Award-wining Irish Novelist Donal Ryan QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Rejection! Rejection! Rejection! It never ends for a writer, say, Irish novelist Donal Ryan but there is still joy to be had…QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Discovering All the Different Versions of You – Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Gillian Flynn, the author Gone Girl, says that writing has helped her discover thousands of authentic versions of herdelf
How to Get Your Book Out There – Simon Trewin, Leading UK Literary Agent QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Leading UK literary agent’s pithy, punchy advice about how to get your book noticed
Reading, writing and the Absurdity of Life – Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We … Continue reading
Why Fiction is More Interesting…Eleanor Roosevelt QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell … Continue reading
What We Hope For…Anton Chekhov QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Anton Chekhov in a pessimistic mood reflecting on the things we hope for…
Seeing the Familiar in a New Way – Donald Maass, New York Literary Agent QUOTES FOR WRITERS
…making me see the familiar in a wholly new way and making the unfamiliar a foundational part of me…
How to Become a Famous Writer – Samuel Johnson
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, … Continue reading
Think of it from the Blank Canvas’ Point of View – Philip Pullman QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralysing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it, and remember what Vincent … Continue reading
Readers Take What They Want…John Steinbeck QUOTES FOR WRITERS
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he … Continue reading
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