Meaning & Key Takeaway of: [When asked about Writing Conferences]…

“War does not only kill men. Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.”

“Oh, but it is!" said Dot. "You see, I've taken many, many writing workshops. You'd be surprised how many." No I wouldn't, thought Amy,…

“Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the…

Ellen Brazer

“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.”

“The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real daughter did…

“The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed…

I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone:…

I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing,…

“She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain time. Asked…

“When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said,…

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award…

“It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for…

Steve M. Robinson Jr

“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the white wall.…

“Dr. Tom had said that Texas was the only place he had ever found that, when it killed you, it didn't forget about you.”

[When asked about Writing Conferences] "You meet people…