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“It was hard enough to write a book – even a lousy book, much less one of such quality-without being constantly distracted by personal and family problems.”
Elizabeth Peters — Naked Once More
“People who don’t dream only exist from day to day.”
Michael Murphy — The Big Brush-Off
“This is a movement of words. Of thoughts and ideas. But what I’m asking you to do is to write something pure. Boil the Internet down to the purest most valuable thing it offers you and spread that around.”
Wayne Gladstone — Agents of the Internet Apocalypse
“They say knowing is half the battle, but they don’t tell you there is no second half, and fifty percent of anything is never a solution.”
Wayne Gladstone — Agents of the Internet Apocalypse
“There is an inherent insult implicit in rejection. The editor is essentially saying, ‘Your work isn’t good enough; it doesn’t measure up.’ What a dreadful thing to hear!”
Best American Mystery Stories 2104 introduction
“Readers are travelers; they move across lands belonging to someone else, like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not write.”
Michel de Certeau, quoted in Fan Fiction Studies Reader
“It’s like a Marvel Comic written by Beckett.”
What the Hell?: Angel’s “The Girl in Question” Cynthea Masson – Reading Joss Whedon
“People … need things to go wrong, they need tension. In my characters, there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to … But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety.”
Joss Whedon, quoted in Reading Joss Whedon
“Why, in the face of such suffering, do stories matter?”
Aliya Whiteley — The Beauty
“It’s harder to write something short than something long.”
The Best American Mystery Stories 2013
Looking For a Good Book 