“I have been told,” said the count, “that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat.” “That is true, sir, and that is what I like best,” said t...
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. O’Henry, an American writer....
This is not a book that one can read – if reading means to start at the first page and to finish on the last. Here it does not end. One can use this book their entire life. One can also read it ...
In this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life. The illustration in this post is a page from Casanova&#...
Richard Rothwell, A Portrait of Mary Shelley Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. Mary Shelley, the English writer....
I think writing is the ultimate job for a control freak. Alastair Campbell, a British journalist, broadcaster, and author....
A BMW ad, courtesy of MyBroadband.co.za Any trace of literariness in an advertisement is fatal to its success. Advertisement writers may not be lyrical, or obscure, or in any way esoteric. They must b...
The passage from The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov that you are about to see in the video (in Russian, the English translation is below), has long been known by heart. When I was 16, I loved the ...
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. André Gide, a French author. x...
To be born a writer, one must learn to like privation, suffering, humiliation. Above all, one must learn to live apart. Like the sloth, the writer clings to his limb while beneath him life surges by s...