“Three rules for literary success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more. 4. Write a lot more.” – Robert Silverberg

“Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.” – Kent Nerburn

“When screen technology progresses sufficiently, the idea of using paper will become a total anachronism. Paper won’t record and store your notes or annotations; screens will.” – Mike Shatzkin from his April 27, 2010 blog post “What I Would Have Said in London, Part 2”

“I procrastinate to a point where I’m filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It’s usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.” – Michael Lewis

“Well, I don’t know exactly how it’s done. I let it alone a good deal.” – Saul Bellow

They’re fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talk about writing or themselves. – Lillian Hellman

“There’s two things that you don’t listen to: flattery, which can’t help you, and abuse, which can’t hurt you. You have to look at the facts.” – Jim Tressel

“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.” – Iris Murdoch

The Beauty of Deadlines.

It’s October! Time to prepare for NaNoWriMo.