Wednesday Wisdom – Page 10

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” —Henry David Thoreau […]

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.” —Mignon McLaughlin When […]

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” —William Wordsworth I write thrillers. But if I don’t write characters […]

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” —Samuel Johnson I’m working on a manuscript that is […]

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake […]

This really is one of my favorites… (I’m pretty sure I first discovered this quote from an episode of Criminal […]

“You only get true perspective of your book when you put it out there for readers.” —Peg Brantley It’s all […]

“The first draft of anything is shit.” —Ernest Hemingway Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s all better with friends.

Short but sweet (not): “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.” — Philip Roth To avoid this… get ‘er […]

“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into the sandbox so that later I […]