Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
April 3, 2014
Quote of the Day: Harlan Ellison
April 2, 2014
Quote of the Day: Anne Rice
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
Where do you go?
March 31, 2014
Quote of the Day: Ted Rossario
You’re done, you’re thrilled, you want to get it out there. But that ignores the one advantage a first time writer has over the pro, which is time.
March 20, 2014
Quote of the Day: Joyce Carol Oates
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
March 19, 2014
Quote of the Day: Kim Ki-duk
I have a process where I eliminate dialogue and replace it with actions that can speak the same truth, if possible.
March 18, 2014
Quote of the Day: Wilson Mizner
If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
March 14, 2014
Quote of the Day: Andrew Bennett
Great writers aren’t great first-drafters. They’re great rewriters.
March 6, 2014
Quote of the Day: Susan Orlean
Even after I’d published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
March 5, 2014
Quote of the Day: Margaret Atwood
There’s no free lunch. Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.
