Making a living as an author…
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can’t make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more.
One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.
A very fitting quote…
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
Being a writer…
“Being a writer? Not a bad thing, just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the one where you actually live in.”
– Cornelia Funke
Reading…
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.
James Patterson
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Fantasy…
“Fantasy’s hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”
– Lloyd Alexander
Stupid people…
“Wizards First Rule: People are Stupid”
– Terry Goodkind, Wizard’s First Rule
Books…
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
About cats…
One cat just leads to another.
~Ernest Hemingway
Books are perfect…
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
– Stephen King
A place of refuge…
“This is a library. A place of refuge. Libraries should be full of dusty old books and nooks and corners and places to hide away in.”
— Edward Ferrars, Sense and Sensibility (2008)
