Nancy Rudel
Author's posts
Feb 02
Quote of the week: January roundup
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. Walter Bagehot, 1826-1877 Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt, 1822-1896 A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. Isaac Babel, 1894-1940 Writing the …
Jan 09
Best books covers of 2014
Dec 30
Quote of the week: December roundup
At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me. David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day Man’s brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious …
Nov 30
Quote of the week: November roundup
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index …
Nov 23
The return of pictograms
Nov 10
Quote of the week: October roundup
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. Paul Simon I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as …
Oct 30
Ten better ways to say: scary
Happy Halloween! I hope you experience (and survive) something suitably spine-chilling. nightmarish ghastly frightful formidable unnerving horrendous horrifying hair-rising eerie perturbing Revisit ten better ways to say: afraid to plan your response!
Oct 15
Quote of the week: September roundup
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G.K. Chesterton The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. John Steinbeck There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a …