On Writing | I’ve Been As Bad An Influence On American Literature | Dashiell Hammett, 1894-1961
Dashiell Hammett “When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to...
On Writing
Reader’s Bill of Rights | Daniel Pennac, 1992
Nigel Peake, The book In The City, 2014 The right to not read The right to skip pages The right...
On [:] Walk | Joyce Rachelle
Klaus Kremmerz “If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.” Joyce Rachelle
On Writing | A man lays his character on the line | Norman Mailer, 1923-2007
Norman Mailer, 1940s “The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.” “Writer’s block is only a failure of the...
On Writing | Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
Ray Bradbury working at home in Los Angeles, 1963 “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”...
Not keep a journal | Jane Austen, 1803
Jane Austen, manuscript of unfinished novel The Watsons, 1803 “But, perhaps, I keep no journal." Perhaps you are not sitting...
How to write a short story | Kurt Vonnegut, 1999
Kurt Vonnegut Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel...
On Writing | Rod Serling, 1924-1975
Rod Serling, Connecticut, 1956 "The easiest thing on earth to come up with an idea … The hardest thing on...
On Writing | The two distinct sides of a writer of fiction | Roald Dahl, 1977
Roald Dahl aged 17, 1934 “And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are...
On Writing | Cartography | Gilles Deleuze, 1925-1995
Kurt Schwitters, Mz 26 61. Sprengel, 1926 “Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveyingand...