Laura Miller at Salon.com offers writers advice on how to write better fiction.

Toni Morrison said, when she started writing, “It was as though I had nothing left but my imagination. I wrote like someone with a dirty habit. Secretly. Compulsively. Slyly.”

Top 10 Quotes about Writing and Creativity. Including quotes by Willa Cather, Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Nora Ephron and more.

Should we encourage everyone to write, especially when the odds are long and the cost to a personal life is sometimes high?

Aspiring writers are often told at writer’s conferences, “Don’t quit your day job!” These words frequently come from writers/agents/publishers who have been in the business long enough to know that having a career as a writer can be the Mt. Everest of dreams.

Susan Gabriel answers a question from an aspiring writer.

Anyone who loves writing, books and/or bookstores might appreciate these photographs of some incredible bookstores.

Writers must get our work out into the world and it takes a bit of the promoter or show-man/ show-woman to do it.

Interview with Susan Gabriel, author of Seeking Sara Summers, conducted by Alexandra Wolfe of Kissed by Venus

Publish those books, get them out of the house, experience a different kind of empty nest.