Category: For Writers

Successful writers are only rarely in the middle of difficult paragraphs. Most of our time is spent prevaricating and whining[…]

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson .

It’s easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren’t writers, and very little harm comes to them.[…]

If a writer has to rob his mother he will not hesitate – the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is[…]

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann .

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write[…]

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell. P D James