Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

...nuomstunder have ligesaa mange Skribentere, som Fluer udi September maaned.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.