8 quotes found
“The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.”
“In order to be heard, an author must have readers...”
“First of all is the fact that I have some rather good turns of phrase. I don't say that pridefully ... it's just that when a line I forgot about smacks me in the face and says, "Look at me! Aren't ...”
“Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they breathe. For me, writing is a natural reflex to the beauty, the events, and the pe...”
“When the hollys in the redAnd the pine is in the green,When the mornings all are frosty,In a brilliant silver sheenThen I love to go a walkingRambling here and there, quite slow,Plucking greenery a...”
“Why is it that women are the only ones who will write perfect men into fiction? It's strange. If a man portrayed his fictional men as archangels, the feminists would throw back their heads and howl...”
“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter, the character development, the world-building becom...”
“When the holly’s in the redAnd the pine is in the green,When the mornings all are frosty,In a brilliant silver sheenThen I love to go a’ walkingRambling here and there, quite slow,Plucking greenery...”
