Category Archives: Writing Quotes and Other Literary Fun

Streetcars and Desire, Tennessee Williams and Writing

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Meg Waite Clayton

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.” – Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Continue reading →

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Bookshelf as Painting

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Meg Waite Clayton

How sad that this wonderful book image, which I found as a repin on Page & Palette’s Pinterest page, links from the Pinterest post to a porn site. Sigh. I scoped around to find the original image source, but struck … Continue reading →

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When Comforting a Grammar Nazi…

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Meg Waite Clayton

Maybe it’s just that I’m waiting for copyedits on The Wednesday Daughters, but this one–found on Pinterest, thanks to Pudd’nhead Books–made me laugh. – Meg Share the post “When Comforting a Grammar Nazi…”FacebookTwitterGoogle+

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On Reviews

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Meg Waite Clayton

I’m in that wonderful place for a writer: between reviews. But I came across a piece in Publisher’s Weekly today listing 13 remarkably bad reviews for classic books. My favorite, because it is about one of my favorite books: “Middlemarch … Continue reading →

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E.B. White and Friedrich Nietzsche on Writing and Friends … and Please Share Links to Your Writer-Pals

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Meg Waite Clayton

I was just about to tweet the E.B. White quote “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer” with thanks to some of my writer-pals. But in the process, I realized … Continue reading →

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The Wordle.net Edit

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Meg Waite Clayton

I pasted a late-process draft of The Wednesday Daughters into the handy-dandy box on the site. The end result: a manuscript with 15 fewer “likes,” 26 fewer “evens,” 41 fewer “backs,” and … yes, it gets worse! Continue reading →

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