“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.” WritingI CanBookStoriesFightingSituationCasesAcceptanceReaderHeroAdversityMailSurvivingCan't ChangeAffirmingSnailPersonal StoriesTrue HeroFighting Through Author:Lurlene McDaniel
“I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.” WritingStillsUseToo MuchMailSurfingQuills Author:Oscar Nunez
“I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.” PeopleWritingBookHateSurpriseThings To DoMailSurprise MeBetter Things To DoHate Mail Author:Jhonen Vasquez
“It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.” WritingDrawsTwentiesStoresComicPostsBeachMailBucksTemptingReddit Author:Randall Munroe
“Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on its flood, you must give yourself rewards. "When I write this chapter, I can call my boyfriend." "When I finish one page more, I can get an ice cream cone." "If I write this section, I'll find a check in the mail."” IfsGivingWritingFirstsI CanSometimesHardPagesRewardsChecksIceMailChaptersFloodCreamSectionsIce CreamMy BoyfriendConesIce Cream Cones Author:Sophy Burnham
“Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.” WritingBelieveWellsMayMomentsHelpingProblemHandsAsksHugeWasteLettersEverydayDetailsManageIntimateMailSingle MomEnvelopesBundlesImplicitPersonal Problems Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.” IfsWritingBookSelfJobsEasyInternetDisciplineDown AndHanging OutMailSubconsciousEmployedSurfingSurfing The InternetHanging Out With Friends Author:Charles de Lint
“You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.” WayWritingWholeStoriesHouseGrowsRoomsGrowing UpGenerationsReadyFatsDozenMailGetting OldRefrigeratorsCranky Author:Orson Scott Card