You Can’t Please Everyone, so…

  Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself. - Harlan Ellison   If I were going to take that quote point by point, I’d start with the fact that Ellison has critics who praise …

Hard Work

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you -- as if you haven't been told a million times already -- that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching. - Harlan Ellison Say what you will about Ellison (and many people …