I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it’s none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can’t wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.
May 25, 2012
Quote of the Day: Aravind Adiga
When you live and work on your own, as I do, writing takes a long time. You can keep producing shit and you’re always wondering whether you should stop. I’m so glad I had friends who told me to keep going.
May 24, 2012
Quote of the Day: Andre Dubus III
I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. I rarely feel it with a whole piece, but sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.
May 23, 2012
Quote of the Day: Bernard Cornwall
My books aren’t trying to fathom the mysteries of human existence. I’m an entertainer.
May 15, 2012
Quote of the Day: Jane Austen
Oh it is only a novel… In short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
May 9, 2012
Quote of the Day: Jeffrey Archer
War and Peace maddens me because I didn’t write it myself, and worse, I couldn’t.
May 1, 2012
Quote of the Day: HL Mencken
The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
April 30, 2012
Quote of the Day: Stephen King
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair – the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
April 27, 2012
Quote of the Day: Voltaire
The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
April 23, 2012
Quote of the Day: Rainer Maria Rilke
This before all: ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: must I write? Dig down into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be in the affirmative, if you may meet this solemn question with a strong and simple, I must, then build your life according to this necessity.
