Ein Entlastungspodcast für Autor*innen.
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren’t interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story...
Every book is an argument with myself.
Patricia Highsmith
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn’t have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when...
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
Helen Dunmore
Lass Dich, nur weil Du nicht so feste Arbeitszeiten wie ein Büroangestellter hast, niemals von anderen Leuten um Deine (tägliche) Arbeitszeit bringen oder unterbrechen, wenn nicht unbedingt nöti...
Don't romanticise your "vocation". You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no "writer's lifestyle". All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith
"Run your own race. Don't worry about how fast someone else writes, how much another author makes, how many followers another author has. Write what makes you excited, and the enthusiasm will co...
"Do give the work a name as quickly as possible. Own it, and see it. Dickens knew Bleak House was going to be called Bleak House before he started writing it."
Roddy Doyle
Weil diese Woche im Dezember 2023 das neue Buch von Till erscheint, sprechen Alena und er über Hoffnung – beim Schreiben, fürs Leben, für die Kinder, und darüber, ob ein Buch überhaupt Hoffnung ...
"We should not look down on work nor look down on the forty-five out of fifty-two stories written in our first year as failures. To fail is to give up. But you are in the midst of a moving proce...