On Writing | Mickey Spillane, 1918 – 2006
Mickey Spillane with a L.C. Smith Standard Super Speed typewriter, 1952 . "Nobody reads a mystery to get to the...
On Writing
On Literature | Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940
Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940 . "Literature tells very little to those who understand it." "All great works of literature either dissolve...
The most difficult part of writing | John Fowles, 1988
Matt Hunt . "On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You...
Days [ ) Αdmiration | Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1838
Honore De Balzac - drawing by Mary Evans . "Balzac is great!" Fyodor Dostoevsky* in a letter to his...
To Write Is To Forget | Fernando Pessoa
Reading on the roof of an apartment building in New York City, 1951 . “To write is to forget. Literature...
Persons [ ] Writing / Memory / Invention | Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1922 – 2008
Alain Robbe-Grillet . "The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it." "Memory belongs...
Belief & Technique for Modern Prose | Jack Kerouac, 1922-69
Jack Kerouac, New York City, 1953 . 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy 2....
Persons [ ] The Opposite of Talking | Fran Lebowitz on Writing, Life, Art & Wealth
Writing “All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of...
Persons [ ] The novel moves like all the arts | Nathalie Sarraute, 1900-99
Nathalie Sarraute "The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her...
Ten Rules of Writing | Elmore Leonard (1925 – 2013)
Elmore Leonard, 1956 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than...