“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.” ― Neil Gaiman The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction Neil… Read More November 10th – Neil Gaiman
“I think I’m able to explain things because understanding wasn’t entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to see instantly I had to work to understand. I can remember what I had to do to figure it out. The very brilliant ones figure it out so fast they never… Read More November 9th – Carl Sagan
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists — with it all things are possible. Ida Tarbell Ida Minerva Tarbell, one of the nation’s first and foremost investigative journalists, was born on November 5th, 1857, in a log cabin in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania. Later the family moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania, where… Read More November 5th – Ida Tarbell
“Advice for beginning writers? Sure. I got advice for them. The Amityville book is a good book because when I didn’t write it well I listened to Tammy Mossman. When Tammy said something needed to be fixed I didn’t argue. I fixed it. So my advice to beginners is to listen to your editors. Your words are… Read More November 4th – Jay Anson
“The traveller need have no scruple in limiting his donations to the smallest possible sums, as liberality frequently becomes a source of annoyance and embarrassment.” Karl Baedeker Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker (BAY-day-ker) was born on November 3rd, 1801, in Essen, in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia. His father and grandfather were booksellers and… Read More November 3rd – Karl Baedeker
“My advice to aspiring writers: write what you love and not what’s hot. If you enjoy what you’re writing you’ll be more likely to finish it, rewrite and improve it, and market it when the time comes.” Dale Brown Dale Brown was born in Buffalo, New York, on November 2, 1956. He graduated from Penn… Read More November 2nd – Dale Brown
Nicholasa Mohr was born on November 1st, 1938, in Manhattan, New York. She is the best-known and most published Nuyorican writers – first and second-generation Puerto Ricans living in New York who integrate Spanish and English language and American and Puerto Rican cultures. Her mother, Nicholasa Rivera, had moved from Puerto Rico to Spanish Harlem during the Depression.… Read More November 1st – Nicholasa Mohr
“I have often noted that it takes the thinnest skin in the world to be a writer, it takes the thickest to seek out publication. But both are needed—the extreme sensitivity and the hippo hide against criticism.” Katherine Paterson Katherine Womeldorf Paterson was born October 31st, 1932, in Qing Jiang, China. Her parents were Presbyterian… Read More October 31st – Katherine Paterson
“I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.” Elizabeth Madox Roberts Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a noted writer of the early 20th century, born October 30, 1881, in Perryville, Kentucky. During her lifetime, she published seven novels, two books of short stories, and two… Read More October 30th – Elizabeth Madox Roberts
“The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. ‘Finish your first draft and then we’ll talk,’ he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and… Read More October 29th – Dominick Dunne
Daily Inspirations for Writers and Readers 