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Wishful thinking

Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

—Neil Gaiman

Posted on September 30, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Humor, Reflections, WritingTags Elves, Humor, procrastination, WritingLeave a comment on Wishful thinking

The Writer’s Job

Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov and friends

The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

—Vladimir Nabokov

Posted on September 29, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Nabokov, WritingLeave a comment on The Writer’s Job

The Well

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

– Ernest Hemingway

Posted on September 28, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on The Well

A Quality of Redemption

Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly

I’m a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there’s a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

– Michael Connelly

Posted on September 27, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Crime thrillers, Reflections, WritingTags Art, Michael Connelly, WritingLeave a comment on A Quality of Redemption

Nothing to it…

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

– Ernest Hemingway

Posted on September 26, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Nothing to it…

Simply the best…

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

– Ernest Hemingway

Posted on September 25, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Simply the best…

Looking into the Abyss

Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. 

– Michael Connelly

Posted on September 24, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Crime thrillers, Reflections, WritingTags Michael Connelly, WritingLeave a comment on Looking into the Abyss

You don’t need demons

Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen

“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”

― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

Posted on September 23, 2021September 22, 2021Categories Crime thrillers, Reflections, WritingTags Evil, Tess Gerritsen, WritingLeave a comment on You don’t need demons

The terrible thing…

James Baldwin on a New York street

The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.

—James Baldwin

Posted on August 31, 2021August 23, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags James baldwin, WritingLeave a comment on The terrible thing…

Cracks…

Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

—Leonard Cohen

Posted on August 30, 2021August 23, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags creativityLeave a comment on Cracks…

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