"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any."

 

 

Orson Scott Card 

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”

 

Stephen King.

I, Vladimir - Reader's Comments.

 A few readers comments that have been made on my novel  'I, Vladimir'.
The story which will travel through time and tells the tale of the oldest living vampire, Vladimir; his struggles living along side humans; which was sometimes more out of convenience than one of mutual understanding-
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"Your characters are all so distinctly visible, and you have the tension knot strained perfectly."

"Well paced narrative with great detail and a wealth of imaginative creativity."

"Historically, this is minutely documented, making it more realistic than fantasy."

‎"I never would have read a vampire story before, but this has gripped me all along - testimony as to how great a novel it is."

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.  ~ Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~ E.L. Doctorow

It is the deepest desire of every writer, the one we never admit or even dare to speak of: to write a book we can leave as a legacy. And although it is sometimes easy to forget, wanting to be a writer is not about reviews or advances or how many copies are printed or sold. It is much simpler than that, and much more passionate. If you do it right, and if they publish it, you may actually leave something behind that can last forever.

ALICE HOFFMAN

Stop When You Are Going Good

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never get stuck.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY