WoW Saturday

Both "writers on writing" and "words of wisdom" can be shortened with the same word. Thus, welcome to WoW Saturdays, June to September 2011. Enjoy this collection of writers quotes throughout the summer.

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

- Vladimir Nabakov

"What's the point of writing if what you write sits in a drawer forever and nobody ever sees it? Honestly, I think it's just that you want people to read what you write. It's that simple."

- Michele Mulroney

"Yes, I thought, a novel is a spot where language, movement, feeling, and thought jell for a moment, through the agency of, let's say, a particular volunteer, but it is not an object or a possession. It is an act of love."

- Jane Smiley

There is no how to it, no how do you write, no how do you live, how do you die. If there were, nothing would live in the deep and very delicate chain of life. It is the doing that makes for continuance. It is not the knowing of how the doing is done.

- William Saroyan

"It seems to me that any confusion between autobiography and fiction debases fiction."

- John Cheever