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 22, 2012
Quote of the Day: Ring Lardner
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope, big enough to send the manuscript back in. This is too much of a temptation for the editor.
May 21, 2012
Quote of the Day: WH Auden
A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
May 16, 2012
Quote of the Day: JW Goethe
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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 14, 2012
Quote of the Day: Jerry Jenkins
Pedestrian writing, thin characters-I can handle the criticism. I write to pedestrians. And I am a pedestrian. I write the best I can. I know I’m never going to be revered as some classic writer. I don’t claim to be C. S. Lewis. The literary-type writers, I admire them. I wish I was smart enough to write a book that’s hard to read, you know?
