One really stressful prospect for authors is that we will be the only ones to show up for our readings. Anne Patchett's wonderful take on the problem (excuse me …
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Writing Quotes and Other Literary Fun
Toni Morrison on Making Time to Write, among Other Things
President Obama, in presenting the Medal of Freedom to Toni Morrison on Tuesday, remarked that as a single mother she would carve out a little time in the …
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Shakespeare & Company, Paris France
where Anais Nin, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, and Ernest Hemingway have been I'm in Paris for a month, writing and walking in the steps of some literary greats. …
Garrison Keillor on Humor and Rejection
I came across a delightful interview of Garrison Keillor today. Perhaps these two quotes will tempt you to click through to the whole interview? “Humor needs to …
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Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday
Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday: “I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever …
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Does This Sound Familiar?
"You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence ... If you are properly modest, you will never write at all, so there had to be …
Anne Tyler on 1st Drafts
"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the …
First Draft!
Just finished a first draft of my new novel, and am reminded of the Hemingway saying re same: "First drafts are s#!t." Well, except he had a version of hello in …
Profoundly Shaken
It's a close call to say which was the more delightful happening yesterday: getting to introduce Ann Patchett for her reading at Kepler's last night, or opening …
Treasures of the Mind
Like everyone else lately, I've been glued to the news - the Arab Spring, the tornados, the arrest of Mr. Strauss-Kahn and Weinergate - and sometimes wondering …
