Given how we criticize the authors in our book club, thought we should spend some time thinking about the effort that goes into creating their stories...
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
- Mark Twain
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them.
- Isaac Asimov
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The writer's way is rough and lonely and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say cleaning ferryboats?
- Dorothy Parker
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
- William Saroyan
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
- Mark Twain
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them.
- Isaac Asimov
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The writer's way is rough and lonely and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say cleaning ferryboats?
- Dorothy Parker
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
- William Saroyan
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