Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) STEPHEN KING
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the … Continue reading
The difference between fiction and non fiction
Over on The View Outside Vikki’s written about a recent research session at the Faber Academy where novelist and Guardian writer Susie Steiner gave a pretty good definition of the … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) STEPHEN COVEY
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing Stephen Covey
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) LINDA NEWBERY
You may be able to cook a reasonable pasta dish, but you don’t therefore see yourself as rival to Gordon Ramsay or Nigella Lawson. Yet, for some reason, it’s a … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) MARK TWAIN
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations)
“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry … Continue reading
QUOTATIONS FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotations)
Writers procrastinate on writing so much that the term “writer” is probably a misnomer. We should be called “putting things off-ists”. Leo Babauta
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 