top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
Creativity
"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
Literature
"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
Intelligence
"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."
Writing
"It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me."
Growth
"Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket."
Integrity
"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."
Literature
"People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really."
War
"For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists."
Writing
"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
Research
More
"Edinburgh is alive with words."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
Author Name
Personal Development
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
Author Name
Personal Development
"L.A. is my American city."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
Author Name
Personal Development
"London is the clearing-house of the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page