I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”[Writer’s Digest, September 1961]

But ‘I worked hard on this’ doesn’t exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren’t about anyone being out to get me. It’s not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It’s people taking the time to...

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal...

A Million Copies Sold,” did you ever wonder who bought them?

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author’s ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree…they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn’t really want to...

No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

‎”It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life.” – on writing

I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.

You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have—your voice, your...

A writer writesregardless…even though…notwithstanding…despite…at any rate…anyhow…nevertheless…in the face of…undeterred by…heedless of…and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only...

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like....

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

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Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit.” Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

It’s a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

A glorious death would be in myfinal breath to take before I die, to hearone final time on my belovèd’s mouththe sound of her eternal sigh.

The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern’sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can...

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers...

I’m not stupid and I’m not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes. I’m more of a “I should have said that” kind of gal. But there will be other days when I’ll have a comback...

Well written novels are penned by authors who have a unique and personal ardor for their story. They fabricate the phrases of their mind into a voice and thus a character is born.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

There’s a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

I suspect that most authors don’t really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

…he was after all, a novelist…and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those...

If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for...

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.