Thereunder Spelling Quotes & Sayings

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have. — Nadine Gordimer

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. — Jonathan Edwards

I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in. — Greg Rucka

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you. — Katherine Paterson

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. — John Mayer

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too," I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same. — Stephen King

[885] Brag while you can, Hector. Zeus and Apollo Have given you — Homer

The head writer loves that my character is a boor. — Rob Corddry

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career. — Greg Graffin

After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages. — Walter Dean Myers

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. — Alan Bennett