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Quote for Today: Mark Haddon
CCLI by Tomomarusan on wikimedia commons Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. –Mark Haddon
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Funny Name: What’s in a Name from American Splendor
© Davidkphoto with CCLicense Harvey Pekar was an American comic book writer and music critic. While he was not officially labeled a comedian, you may remember his witty appearances on the David...
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The Outsider as a Mirror: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
© Jean-Michel Baud with CCLicense Outsiders inspire fear and enchantment. What does our reaction to those who are different say about us and our beliefs? Literature and film contain shining examples of...
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Quote for Today: Anne Tyler
© uNfOrGiVenLaMb with CCLicense I don’t want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don’t think it’s supernatural. I think it’s just that when characters are given enough texture...
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Quote for Today: Joan Didion
Watercolor Swirls © BookMama with CCLicense Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are...
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Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
Fog Over Lambeth Bridge on the Thames © Paul Farmer with CCLicense Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. –Kazuo Ishiguro
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Quote for Today: Dorothy L. Sayers
© Alan Levine with CCLicense A man once asked me… how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large,...
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Quote for Today: Garth Stein
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader...
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Quote for Today: Adlai Stevenson
© Hans Splinter with CCLicense An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. –Adlai E. Stevenson
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Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
© Bob Jagendorf with CCLicense I’m interested in memory because it’s a filter through which we see our lives, and because it’s foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the...
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Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
Poetry of Silence© soulofautumn87 with CCLicense Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of...
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Quote for Today: Graham Greene
The Great Escape© 17Millimeters with CCLicense Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the...
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Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
Pizza Injustice© Stéfan with CCLicense Just don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t. Stay open to them. It’s teatime and all the dolls are at the table....
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Quote for Today: Tom Reiss
© Jemimus with CCLicense The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The...
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Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
© THOR with CCLicense I wrote a great deal of a novel, Winter’s Tale, on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my...
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Quote for Today: Lee Bontecou
Butterfly 3D © Angelii-D with CCLicense The little pencil is a magic box… You can take a piece of paper and walk anywhere. –Lee Bontecou
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Quote for Today: Stephen Sondheim
© he2pockysticks with CCLicense The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down,...
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Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
Storyteller Under Sunny Skies by Rose Pecos-Sun Rhodes (Jemez Pueblo), 1993 © Wendy Kavener for the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis with CCLicense A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate...
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Quote for Today: Gilles Deleuze
© Andrew Curtis with CCLicense Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing or exhausted life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted...
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Quote for Today: Helen Dunmore
© Steve Hunt with CCLicense Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear....
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