Stephen King “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” I resented reading when I was a child. It took a great many years of persuasion for me to finally yield. A string of obsessive reading urges followed in the form of…

David Lynch "I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.” You’ve got an idea and decided to write a book. Step one on the literary journey is complete but there’s a whole…

Aristotle "There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."  I am by no means an expert on this. I have run a successful campaign for one book but did try and learn quite…

Abraham Lincoln “You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of…

Arthur Conan Doyle “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the…

Tiffany Madison “While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.” Click File, click Print and…wait. You can hear the printer groan in disgust as…

Emelia Lahti "You don’t see a silver lining but you jump into the storm anyway.” What happens when we reach our limit? What happens when we encounter adversity? What happens when we want to give up? Sisu is one of…