At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one. Carol Berg Read Quote
I never believed I could write anything. No way – write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things? Carol Berg Read Quote
One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: ‘Write what you know.’ Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies’ cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are. Carol Berg Read Quote
Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard. Carol Berg Read Quote
Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing. Carol Berg Read Quote