"Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich."
“The worst writing advice is to write what you know.”
In times of uncertainty, upheaval and chaos, readers often turn to romance fiction.
“The solution often comes when I’m not fixated on finding it.”
Jay Gatsby’s mansion represents the realisation of the American dream.
“Be nice to everyone when you visit.”
“Learning what you don’t know so that you can write about it is a fantastic and rewarding process.”
“You can’t please everyone.”
What we know trips us up in lots of ways, a general tendency known as the “curse of knowledge.”
One might expect a book that dispatches moral lessons to be dull reading. But To Kill a Mockingbird is no sermon.
“Nothing except writing is writing.”
“Don’t get it right, get it written.”
