Recent content by Paul Whybrow

If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for a walk is very helpful for a writer because if you are staring at a blank page of a computer screen there is all this pressure. Raphael Bob-Waksberg

"A lone wolf may walk alone, but he never walks aimlessly." Anonymous

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in. Laini Taylor

We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on...

“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” George Bernard Shaw

Where you are is not who you are. Ursula Burns

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. Dave Barry

Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus. Yuval Noah Harari

“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.” Carmen Maria Machado

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate...

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.” Edith Sitwell

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. Leo Tolstoy

“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts—so what?” Richelle E. Goodrich

“When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.” Ava Gardner

“A book is a living thing. It is a bird; it has a voice. The pages of a book are wings. Books have heartbeats. When readers read they feel them; they listen.” Suzy Davies