Premjith Mathew

“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”
― Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

“Ulysses’. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits. I don’t think many readers finishing a book ask themselves how many hours of anguish and domestic calamities those two hundred pages have cost the author or how much he received for his work …”
― Gerald Martin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life