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The Write Quotes: Learning to Write
These inspirational and practical quotes come from 500+ podcast interviews with hard-working, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling authors in more than 33 U.S. states and five countries.
In Book 2, authors share their honest reflections on Learning to Write.
These quotes reveal that there are many paths to learning how to write.
Authors quoted include David Baldacci, Therese Anne Fowler, Steve Berry, Lisa Jewell, John Hart, Sophie Cousens, Ron Rash, C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, Wylie Cash, Kristy Harvey, Brad Taylor, Charlie Lovett, Judy Goldman, Chris Fabry, Amber Smith, Tracy Clark, John Gilstrap, Kimmery Martin, A.J. Hartley, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Jason Mott, Mark de Castrique, Cathy Pickens, David Joy, Gavin Edwards, and many more.
Author Bud Schill says that “if you were to put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, for an infinite period of time, eventually they would write a Shakespearean sonnet.”
New York Times bestselling novelist C.J. Box didn’t bang around like a bunch of monkeys to obtain his success, but admits he was self-taught: “I deconstructed the books I really liked on my own to figure out how that author got me into it, what the pace was, what the arc was, the point of view.”
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash says, “We're not making McDonald's hamburgers. There’s just no clear-cut way to do it.” And award-winning author Renea Winchester quips, “The best thing that an author can have is a writing friend who’s immensely more successful than they are,” a point that New York Times bestselling novelist Craig Johnson echoes when he says “I learned more in four hours talking with Tony Hillerman than I may have gotten in an entire year master's degree in writing.”
In Book 2, authors share their honest reflections on Learning to Write.
These quotes reveal that there are many paths to learning how to write.
Authors quoted include David Baldacci, Therese Anne Fowler, Steve Berry, Lisa Jewell, John Hart, Sophie Cousens, Ron Rash, C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, Wylie Cash, Kristy Harvey, Brad Taylor, Charlie Lovett, Judy Goldman, Chris Fabry, Amber Smith, Tracy Clark, John Gilstrap, Kimmery Martin, A.J. Hartley, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Jason Mott, Mark de Castrique, Cathy Pickens, David Joy, Gavin Edwards, and many more.
Author Bud Schill says that “if you were to put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, for an infinite period of time, eventually they would write a Shakespearean sonnet.”
New York Times bestselling novelist C.J. Box didn’t bang around like a bunch of monkeys to obtain his success, but admits he was self-taught: “I deconstructed the books I really liked on my own to figure out how that author got me into it, what the pace was, what the arc was, the point of view.”
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash says, “We're not making McDonald's hamburgers. There’s just no clear-cut way to do it.” And award-winning author Renea Winchester quips, “The best thing that an author can have is a writing friend who’s immensely more successful than they are,” a point that New York Times bestselling novelist Craig Johnson echoes when he says “I learned more in four hours talking with Tony Hillerman than I may have gotten in an entire year master's degree in writing.”
174 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2023
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About the author
Landis Wade
17 books73 followersLandis Wade is a recovering trial lawyer who writes mysteries and legal thrillers with amateur sleuths and underdog attorneys.
His Christmas Courtroom Trilogy has been called a cross between My Cousin Vinny and Miracle on 34th Street.
His Indie Retirement Mystery series involves humor, good puzzles, and engaging retirees who solve mysteries with a historic component. Deadly Declarations, book 1 in the series, won ten awards, including Winner in the 2022 American Fiction Awards in the Cozy Mystery category, and Winner in the Mystery category in the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Next in the series is Deadly Gold Rush. His love of history led to this series.
Landis also founded the popular Charlotte Readers Podcast where he interviewed more than 500 authors, and compiled The Write Quotes series–8 books that feature inspirational and practical quotes from those authors. While podcasting, he co-wrote a novella with podcast co-host Sarah Archer titled Death by Podcasting, a comedic mystery about the danger of podcasting with author guests.
The Charlotte Writers Club awarded Landis their 2025 Adelia Kimball Founders Award for service to the club and the literary community. He lives in North Carolina, where he grew up, went to school, practiced law, and learned to write. He enjoys travel, playing golf, reading, and spending time in the mountains and at the beach.
His Christmas Courtroom Trilogy has been called a cross between My Cousin Vinny and Miracle on 34th Street.
His Indie Retirement Mystery series involves humor, good puzzles, and engaging retirees who solve mysteries with a historic component. Deadly Declarations, book 1 in the series, won ten awards, including Winner in the 2022 American Fiction Awards in the Cozy Mystery category, and Winner in the Mystery category in the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Next in the series is Deadly Gold Rush. His love of history led to this series.
Landis also founded the popular Charlotte Readers Podcast where he interviewed more than 500 authors, and compiled The Write Quotes series–8 books that feature inspirational and practical quotes from those authors. While podcasting, he co-wrote a novella with podcast co-host Sarah Archer titled Death by Podcasting, a comedic mystery about the danger of podcasting with author guests.
The Charlotte Writers Club awarded Landis their 2025 Adelia Kimball Founders Award for service to the club and the literary community. He lives in North Carolina, where he grew up, went to school, practiced law, and learned to write. He enjoys travel, playing golf, reading, and spending time in the mountains and at the beach.
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April 11, 2023
This book enables self-discovery about your capacity to write and your willingness to be a writer. Your path to learning to write will weave between, among, through, and around all the statements in this collection, the ad hoc declarations of experienced writers about the task of writing. Some will set you afire because they resonate with what you want to believe about writing and about yourself. Don’t stop there. Others will beckon a challenge you set for yourself, the completing of which moves you closer to believing that you are learning to write. And you are, if you write every day, putting one word after another and then you move them around, adding and deleting new words, thoughts, and phrases, as you would want to read them. When you do that, you are learning to write. When you do that and enjoy the process above all distractions, you are a writer.
The Kindle edition enables the reader to link through the list of authors to the entire podcast episode for each writer--hundreds of them, right at your finger tips and into your ears on demand. Learn from those who also met the challenges you face as a writer--novice or many times published. This book is a great springboard into your own best workshop on learning to write and why you do.
Do it!
The Kindle edition enables the reader to link through the list of authors to the entire podcast episode for each writer--hundreds of them, right at your finger tips and into your ears on demand. Learn from those who also met the challenges you face as a writer--novice or many times published. This book is a great springboard into your own best workshop on learning to write and why you do.
Do it!
May 12, 2023
I love this book of quotes. It is like attending a workshop with over 500 writers. They all give practical advice on writing and it is really realistic advice. I really loved the quote by Lisa Williams Kline. She tells you to think of writing like a craft. It is a valuable lesson on how to take criticism. As any writer can tell you the fear of having your work torn apart is what keeps so many potential writers from trying. I would recommend this book to anyone who is a writer or who would like to be one.
April 11, 2023
This book reflects the wisdom of hundreds of accomplished writers. When so many successful poets, novelists, screenplay writers tell us that we must never stop learning our craft, that persistence is key to the creative life, that each of us has our own voice and that our work has value because nobody else's work will be just like it, I believe. And I believe when they say that a foundation of good writing is good reading. Any aspiring writer will be better for reading this book.
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