“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O’Connor

Ah now, do you agree?  And why?

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

And I think we all agree that it’s great when the writer wins the battle.

Very profound…

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

 

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

That’s why it pays to be a little gentle in your reviewing; there’s a person at the other end.

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot

This is why my books are unpacked first whenever I move somewhere new!