“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” Larry L. King
Thursday Quote: Roald Dahl
“I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.” Roald Dahl
Thursday Quote: Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.” Groucho Marx
Thursday Quote: Ivana Trump and Mark Twain
“Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. Ivana Trump, upon finishing her first novel. Funny how that stands almost direct opposition to the following: “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain
Thursday Quote: Samuel Butler
“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.” Samuel Butler
Thursday Quote: William Faulkner
“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put…
Thursday Quote: William Saroyan
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive,…
Thursday Quote: Tracy Kidder
“You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.” Tracy Kidder
Thursday Quote: Tad Williams
“…I discovered that if I trusted my subconscious, or imagination, whatever you want to call it, and if I made the characters as real and honest as I could, then no matter how complex the pattern being woven, my subconscious…
Thursday Quote: Jane Yolen
“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.” Jane Yolen