A Writer doesn’t need tricks…Raymond Carver: Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for … Continue reading
“Language, as a vehicle, is a lemon…” Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
We writers aren’t sculpting in DNA, or even clay or mud, but words, sentences, paragraphs, syntax, voice; materials issued by tongue or fingertips but which upon release dissolve into the … Continue reading
Stephen King on why readers stop reading — Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight … Continue reading
Reader’s Bill of Rights — Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. … Continue reading
Books show us how to live…read more from Anne Lamott Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds … Continue reading
What two images spring to mind when you think of poetry? Carl Sandburg had no doubts. Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
Sandburg is perhaps most famous for his hymn to Chicago first published in 1914. It starts with this powerful opening that gave the city a nickname it could be proud … Continue reading
Steinbeck on how to write even when you know you can’t. Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I … Continue reading
The Naked Writer — Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
“You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would … Continue reading
What are you doing today? Isabel Allende does the same thing on this day every year
“I start all my books on January eighth. Can you imagine January seventh? It’s hell. Every year on January seventh, I prepare my physical space. I clean up everything from … Continue reading
Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes) Stephen Fry on ebooks
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. STEPHEN FRY photo credit: swisscan via photopin cc
A Quote for Writers at the end of the year
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett photo credit: Denis Collette…!!! via photopin cc … Continue reading
More on Writing for nothing. Is money just the icing on the cake?
I’ve just found another quote about writing for nothing and I thought it would be a good companion to Mark Twain’s comment made a century or so ago. It is … Continue reading
Mark Twain on writing for nothing — Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
“Write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing … Continue reading
Quotes about Christmas — presents
“It’s for the hamster that I’m gonna buy! This is so perfect!” (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas) Gerard Way photo credit: Alice Harold via photopin cc
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 