She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal HistoryA true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten
The Eyes of AlexanderMice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
Ernest Hemingway on WritingThe best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Flaubert's ParrotThe writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
Flaubert's Parrot...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
A Familiar RainCome, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
The Forest for the TreesWhen writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
Good Prose: The Art of NonfictionAs the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Getting Started as a Freelance WriterAn ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.
The Greek WayThe best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.
On Becoming a NovelistWas it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen