One of my favorite writing quotes comes from E.L. Doctorow: "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as yo...

Agatha Christie said about her career, "There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a ...

I submitted my SF novella Lyon's Legacy to Indie Book Blog and was very pleased to see their review go live today. (It's already u...

Some of you may have already read this article in the Wall Street Journal by Harlan Coben about writing. In it, Coben lists the three steps...

I had my A-Z post for today prepared several weeks ago, and it doesn't fit well with the blog chain this time around. So today I have t...

Many of us, myself included, read and write stories for their escapist quality. When work is tedious and stressful, the kids are creating ch...

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." T.S. Eliot. P.S. I wonder what he meant by that--and I hope I nev...

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. Horace Walpole

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the abi...

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."  Bertrand Russell

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.--Ben...

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

For this round of the Blog Chain, Margie wants to know How did you come to write your YA genre (e.g. contemp, fantasy, etc.)? AND (yep, it’...

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." Mark Twain

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

While I was cleaning out my office earlier this week, I found a clipping with quotes on creativity. I'm not sure where I found it, but I...

I just saw this quote in Olivia Judson's column in the New York Times . She's explaining why she's taking a break from writing:...

For all of you nervous about crit groups: "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance...

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." Tallulah Bankhead

I can't resist passing this quote on to you. I think it explains a lot: "The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled t...