WORDS OF WISDOM

Writing is like traveling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

~Langston Hughes, Poet (1902-1967)

WORDS OF WISDOM

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

~Mark Haddon

WORDS OF WISDOM

It's good to know how to read, but it 's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

~Mike Tyson

WORDS OF WISDOM

Good writing is like a windowpane.

~George Orwell, Author (1903-1950)

WORDS OF WISDOM

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

~ Charles Kuralt, Journalist (1934-1997)

WORDS OF WISDOM

 Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

~Mark Haddon

WORDS OF WISDOM

Suspense arises naturally from good writing-it's not a spice to be added separately.

~Leigh Michaels

WORDS OF WISDOM

The reading of all hood books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

~Rene Descartes, Mathematician (1596-1650)

WORDS OF WISDOM

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

~Lynn Abbey (b. 1948)

WORDS OF WISDOM

The heart and soul of good writing is research, you should not write what you know but what you can find out.

~Robrt J. Sawyer, Canadian Writer (b.1960)

WORDS OF WISDOM

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'til your good is better and your better is best.


~St. Jerome (347-420)