Thought.is

You can be Shakespeare and Melville and Philip Roth and rolled into one and it won’t mean a thing if you don’t have a great book idea. To every author I know, finding a great idea is the single hardest challenge of the job.

Anyone caught cheating another crewman would have his ears and nose slashed by the aggrieved party, then turned out at the next port.

You can’t write well unless you read a lot.