WoW Saturdays

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.

"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."

- Rebecca West

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self."

- Cyril Connolly

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."

- Ray Bradbury

If you let other people know that you're a writer, the chances are excellent that they will a) want free writing lessons, b) want you to write their life story, c) want you to collaborate on a book, d) will want you to write some nonfiction.

- David Farland

Thinking of all traditional fiction publishers as one large great judge of books is just flat wrong. A few people, sometimes less than two or three, are in charge of getting a traditionally published novel out to readers. Sure, there are others along the way, but only the editor, a sales person, and a publisher are the judges of quality of the book. And often one or two of them are missing in the equation.

- Dean Wesley Smith