Susan

“Whether it’s the beads of water on the line as it tightens like a hanging rope, or the drops thrown by the thrashing fish—that’s what you need to know. Remember the noises, the light, the exact action that made you excited or angry or scared. Then write down the details so the reader feels your exact feeling.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Beautiful Exiles

“kept going. I knew by now that creation was a game of stamina as much as inspiration, and that each failed effort would eventually teach in combination with some stray additional thought the answer that I needed.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“Sitting for hours at my writing desk was not conducive to good health, and I’d found if I forced myself to exercise, it aided me in my writing. I ran and forced myself to do push-ups to keep my arms from wasting away and my back from growing a hump. The sweat, the motion, and the music that blared in my ears all contributed to getting me out of my head for a blessed hour. It shook off the brain fog and got the synapses firing, and I’d made it part of my daily schedule in the last ten years.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“Comrades!’ he bellowed. ‘There is a saying in our country that if you have one Calcuttan you have a poet; if you have two, you have a political party; and if you have three”
― Janet MacLeod Trotter, The Secrets of the Tea Garden