You’ve heard of writer’s block. But have you heard of reader’s block?

05 Aug, 2019

I found this in the August 2nd, 2019, New York Times. Fun reading...if you're not suffering from reader's block: Reader's block article

You’ve heard of writer’s block. But have you heard of reader’s block?

August 5, 2019June 5, 2026

I found this in the August 2nd, 2019, New York Times. Fun reading…if you’re not suffering from reader’s block: Read More...

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.