“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

Bernard Cornwell

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.”

Michael Connelly

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind […]

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.”

C.S. Lewis

“While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.”

Pablo Neruda