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Nelson Algen

Hi everyone, November is my favourite month because that's when all the tourists leave the South of France and I reclaim my sanity. So my vacation starts now until March when they return (you guessed it, I'm a tour guide). So when I'm not trampling in medieval villages or baroque churches, I am...

New blog post by Claire G – discussions in this thread, please --- The Good There’s so much to love about writing – the excitement of that initial spark of an idea; the stimulation of the challenge to make it work; that feeling you get when you find the perfect word/phrase/sentence/paragraph...

‘The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously...

“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says, ‘you are nothing’, I will be a writer.”, Hunter S. Thompson

A long time ago, I was talking to a history writer and author of many books - all with great titles. I asked him how he came up with them and he told me that none of his proposals had titles. What I never did was ask him how he pulled that off. Is there anybody doing that today? How could you?

What’s talent but the ability to get away with something? Tennessee Williams

Hi, I'm Allen, new member, new writer. My day job is designing rocket engines but my aspiration is writing fiction, which is a heck of a lot more challenging. I look forward to being a member of the Litopia community. :)

Hi Pamela, It's my pleasure to notify you that your submission has moved forward to the second round of jury deliberations for the SLF's Older Writers Grants. We hope to have a final decision for you soon, but we are currently working through a higher than usual number of applications. Please...

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down. Janet Frame

As a writer you should not judge. You should understand. Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuon Ishiguro

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive. Janet Malcolm

“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one – or both. Usually both.” Susan Sontag

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” Czeslaw Milosz

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” Samuel Johnson

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil. Nick Cave

“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” Catherine Drinker Bowen

Once you’re a writer, you’re a writer, and that’s what you do, and you can’t escape from it. It is who you become and who you are. To tell you the truth, I feel guilty all the time because I feel like I’m not writing enough or not working enough. Alice Hoffman