Are personal essays inherently solipsistic? I'd like to take credit for that perfect word choice, but the credit belongs to my writer-friend, Leslie Berlin, …
Writing Quotes and Other Literary Fun
The Secret: You sit down and you start and that's it.
I came across this interview with Elmore Leonard today. It's old - from 1996 - but I'd never seen it. My favorite lines: "I am what you call an overnight …
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Summerset Maugham Rules for Writing
I saw this quote the other day, and couldn't resist sharing it: "There are only three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - …
From On Becoming a Novelist, by John Gardner
Some words of wisdom from John Gardner, whose The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers is the writing book I most often turn to. This one, though, …
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Hemingway's Advice to Writers
For a new slant in the new year right, I've decided to mix author guest posts with advice from other writers on how a writer might ... do whatever it is we do. …
