Reading and Writing

A must for readers and writers of thrillers: “A group of researchers at the Center for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University...

“In genre fiction, it’s not like that. People usually begin their careers by having their writing rejected by their undergrad creative wri...

Publishers and literary agents do not always know better. Here are some books / writers that almost did not become published: “Not only d...

How do writers come up with story ideas and turn them into novels? “If one idea in particular seems attractive, and you feel you could do s...

“There is an unholy practice to bring fundamentalism, capitalism and even politics into literature and culture. Literature goes beyond any r...

Writers are ducking their calling in Surveillance State Amerika: “A new report from the PEN Center and the FDR Group entitled “Chilling Eff...

"The majority of mental illness diagnoses are NOS (not otherwise specified.)  It is very likely that future poets will suffer a mood di...

"We should question the authenticity of exotic locales that have been tailored to suit American appetites.” … “Americans are famously ...

"Do you ever find yourself in the middle of a conversation when it suddenly feels like you’re floating above yourself, watching the who...

“The world goes on creating newer things. Literature is a creation, not theory. The law of nature is to create new things. To neglect creati...

"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 ...

"A lot of people want to improve their writing skills, both professionally and personally. In order to achieve that, a key ingredient i...

"I have often analyzed how mental illness can be tracked, discovered, and understood through the written word. Let’s take a break from ...

"Alcohol is often a strong current in the writing life"... "Why do writers drink? The answer might be “for the same reasons a...

"Writers may loathe the criticism of their works, while critics may loathe the literary works. Without the existence of both, however, ...

"His work took possession of him and he felt the approach of what is called inspiration. At such moments the relation of the forces tha...

"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...

"For an important intellectual product to be immediately weighty, a deep relationship or concordance has to exist between the life of i...

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