- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say?
- Sweet. Cute. Funny.
- That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.
David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.
Mary Papas-Μαρία ΠαπαδοπούλουTags: books writing stories humour authors
A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?
Mary Papas-Μαρία ΠαπαδοπούλουTags: books writing authors short-stories flash-fiction
She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.
Mary Papas-Μαρία ΠαπαδοπούλουTags: books writing authors suspense short-stories flash-fiction anthologies
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]
Tags: writing storytelling conciseness precision
A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: writing reader writer annoyance voice irritation speaker listener handwriting
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reading advice writing writer writers-on-writing advice-for-writers
But this one was a writer, not a reader.
Anthony BurgessTags: writing
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.”
[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]
Tags: writing confidence criticism self-confidence creative-writing self-critique
An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: books writing journalism magazines editor
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