Whether you're doing NaNoWriMo or just like creative writing, enjoy these quotes! If you are a writer, you know the joy that comes from expressing yourself on paper. Whether you are journaling, ...

In a 2002 op-ed in The New York Times, best-selling author Joseph Epstein noted that “81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them — and that they should write it.” Thanks to the rise of the ...

As I type these words, I notice one thought vying for my attention—I am not a writer. Yet, I rely on writing tremendously for most of my work and communication. Essentially, devaluing myself as a ...

It's the month of Halloween (or "October," as some like to call it), and it's time to break out the scarves, candy, pumpkin-flavored beverages, and horror novels. The horror genre gets a bad rap most ...

This is, without a doubt, the most accurate quote ever about the “fun” of writing a book: Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and ...

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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If ...