Writing Quote of the Day: Charles Simic

For me a poem is a place where one invites someone in. You build a little house, fix it up real nice. Inside you’ve got a painting on the wall, a new couch, some knick-knacks and souvenirs, a swell meal all laid out on the table, and you open the door and hope somebody comes in…'

-US Poet Laureate Charles Simic

Writing Quote of the Day: Poppy Z. Brite

I don’t think it is possible to give tips for finding one’s voice; it’s one of those things for which there aren’t really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

Poppy Z. Brite

Writing Quote of the Day: C.N. Bovee

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

C.N. Bovee

Writing Quote of the Day: A.A. Milne

'Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.'

- A A Milne

Writing Quote of the Day: Susan Sontag

The writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth… and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification. The job of the writer is to make it harder to believe the mental despoilers. The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.
It is the job of the writer to depict the realities: the foul realities, the realities of rapture. It is the essence of the wisdom furnished by literature… to help us to understand that, whatever is happening, something else is always going on.

Susan Sontag

Writing Quote of the Day: Oscar Wilde

'I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma.  In the afternoon, I put it back in.' 

- Oscar Wilde

Writing Quote of the Day: Chuck Wendig

Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I’m sure somebody did, but that person’s head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer’s can’t. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.

Chuck Wendig