Quotes for Writers and people who like quotes DEBORAH MOGGACH on the best time to write
Discover the times when you’re most creative – mornings, nights, afternoons – and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are … Continue reading
Happy Bloomsday — quotes from JAMES JOYCE on Christopher Columbus and his own immortality
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the … Continue reading
News flash! Six months until you can enter this international writing competition – but you may need the time
I only became aware of Erma Bombeck a couple of years ago and I regret that I never read any of her newspaper columns. She must, though, be a very … Continue reading
Quotes for writers and people who like quotes — Don’t kid yourself you are writing says E. L. Doctorow
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Find out more about E. L. Doctorow … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers and people who like quotes CHARLES BAXTER
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois shrieks, “I want magic!” and so do ordinary readers. Fiction began its life in magic and fables and in efforts to instruct, and … Continue reading
QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes) O. HENRY
“I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a … Continue reading
Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes) MAEVE BINCHY
In my stories, the ugly ducklings don’t grow up to be beautiful swans, they grow up to be confident ducks! Find out more about MAEVE BINCHY here Related articles Life … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers and People who like quotes DOUGLAS ADAMS
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes) SOL STEIN
A psychotherapist tries to relieve stress, strain and pressure. Writers are not psychotherapists. Their job is to give readers stress, strain and pressure. The fact is that readers who hate … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes) Dorothy L. Sayers
A man once asked me … how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. … I replied that I had … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes) Anne Lamott
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes) ISAAC ASIMOV
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, … Continue reading
Quotes for Writers (and People who like Quotes) HILARY MANTEL
Hilary Mantle: photo by Chris Boland If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen … Continue reading
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