Readers Are Paramount. I Live To Write

The Best Way To Learn About Writing Is To Study The Work Of Other Writers You Admire.

I Spend Eight Months Outlining And Researching The Novel Before I Begin To Write A Single Word Of The Prose.

She Was Reflecting Back On A Truth She Had Learned Over The Years: That People Heard What They Wanted To Hear, Saw What They Wanted, Believed What They Wanted.

But One Does Not Make Living Writing Poetry Unless You're A Professor, And One Frankly Doesn't Get A Lot Of Girls As A Poet.

Of Course, All Writers Draw Upon Their Personal Experiences In Describing Day-to-day Life And Human Relationships, But I Tend To Keep My Own Experiences Largely Separate From My Stories.