Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary in ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. —Boris Pasternak […]
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary in ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. —Boris Pasternak […]
As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance. —Calvin & Hobbs […]
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell […]
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It […]
I met Laura Brennan when I went to Hollywood for a special Sisters In Crime conference. She recently started a […]
“It’s up to the author to intertwine the craft with the creative and find the balance that touches the soul […]
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” […]
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining but the feeling […]
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”—Gustave Flaubert Without […]
“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.” […]