Sunday, January 31, 2010

Sunday Quote

"Art is not a handicraft. It is the transmission of a feeling which the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Sunday Quote

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Sunday Quote

"Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy."
Richard North Patterson

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Sunday Quote

"Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while."
David Eddings

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Sunday Quote

"If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies."
Allan W. Eckert