Reading and Writing

"Literature has the responsibility of showing the disease of the society to the society." "A writer imagines the pain and suf...

“A text must be something that can be read and evaluated without reference to the existence or otherwise of a person whose name and surname ...

"New writers tend to think that editing merely means a brief read through for typos and spelling errors. That is the very last thing to...

"When it comes to choosing books to read, the majority of our decisions are based on heuristics of one sort or another, including: cove...

"Self-flagellation by authors is a long and distinguished tradition, with Tolstoy (who dismissed Anna Karenina as sentimental, "se...

"Aspiring authors, take note.  Nothing secures a literary legacy like an over-sized personality to match the work. On some level, we wa...

A piece of advice for would-be writers: "We ought to make the process of writing books seem less daunting to those who are starting out...

"why are prizes so mistrusted these days? There are many possible answers, but two make, out of this many, more sense. Prizes have beco...

So you want to write a novel? You must be born with it: "Researchers from Yale in the US and Moscow State University in Russia launched...

Rumors circulate about the likely recipient of this year's literary nobel prize. But is judging literary work possible and apropriate? ...

"Political correctness is now about to affect the behaviour of writers, with the American arm of HarperCollins introducing a "mora...

Margaret Atwood did it. Edgar Rice Burrows did it. Willa Cather did it. Joseph Conrad did it. Alexandre Dumas did it. T. S. Eliot did it. Na...

"In his forthcoming book [...] the American author Robert Levine has an excellent chapter on publishing in which he interrogates the fo...

"The fact is that authors seldom retire. Many don’t want to; others couldn’t afford to. So they keep going till death drags them from t...

"The literary bio is an oddly enduring genre. People who read have always been interested in the story behind the stories, but you’d th...

"The suppression of literature is an ancient tradition that probably started with the invention of writing and which thrives today all ...

What do writers have in common? Big egos. In order to create convincingly a writer must have confidence, but to publish one needs an ego. Yo...

In today's world, where online presence and public appearances are often stipulated in publishing contracts, writers are, basically, per...

"Poverty in no way stops anyone from being literate. You can see that in the immigrants who work they way up the ladder by reading book...

Writers the world over can relate to this. Readers may not be aware that writers write what publishers publish, not the other way around. To...