“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.” Burton Rascoe
Thursday Quote: Lord Chesterfield
“Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.” Lord Chesterfield “A man of letters”
Thursday Quote: Orson Scott Card
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” Orson Scott Card
Thursday Quote: Edgar Rice Burroughs
“I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.” Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thursday Quote: Russell Baker
“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.” Russell Baker
A Great Looking Read: Cardon Webb and Sam Potts
Who doesn’t love when a series of books has a secret design trick up its sleeve? Sometimes, when you get the whole set assembled, you find the spines line up to reveal a panorama. In the case of this set,…
Thursday Quote: Samuel Butler
“Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.” Samuel Butler
Thursday Quote: Edna Ferber
“Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.” Edna Ferber
Thursday Quote: Sinclair Lewis
“It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.” Sinclair Lewis