by Hillary DePiano | Jul 27, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Elliot Nothing puts a fire under me better than when I am helping an older person with publishing their book and they are racing to get all their ideas published because they are afraid they...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 20, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.” -H. Jackson Brown Jr.That is one thing I have always noticed. There is not one “overnight success” that didn’t work their butts off for years to get there. Every thing...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 13, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn’t matter.” -Edward AlbeeBoy, does this quote speak to me. I am always struggling with telling myself writing is important when there are so many...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 6, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.” -John W. Campbell Damn right! I always look to this quote when I feel like it is impossible to get...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 30, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” -Ray Bradbury I’ve wanted to do this for a really long while so I’m really going to try to stick with this and do a quote a week. If nothing else, reading them inspires me so hopefully it will do the...
by Hillary DePiano | May 26, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
So I have been waiting rather (im)patiently for The Author Kindle Edition to show on Amazon which it should be doing any moment now and I am not afraid to admit that I was doing a little bit of obsessive refreshing of the Amazon search results with the vigor of a 3...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
