Quote for Today: Tom Reiss
The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of …
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
Just don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t. Stay open to them. It’s teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. …
Quote for Today: Graham Greene
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear …
Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those …
Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
I’m interested in memory because it’s a filter through which we see our lives, and because it’s foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as …
Quote for Today: Adlai Stevenson
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. –Adlai E. Stevenson
Quote for Today: Garth Stein
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. …
Quote for Today: Dorothy L. Sayers
A man once asked me… how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member …
Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. —Kazuo Ishiguro
Quote for Today: Joan Didion
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the …