Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Quotes of the Week


If you are not discourage by your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough.

—Maxwell Perkins

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

—George Orwell

The best time for planning a book is while doing the dishes.

—Agatha Christie

You must write. It’s not enough to start by thinking. You become a writer by writing.

—R.K. Narayan

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

—Truman Capote

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.

—William Faulkner

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

—Sylvia Plath

We all have time machines, don't we, those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward are dreams.

—H.G. Wells



Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Want a Signed Copy?

Want a signed copy of SHADOWS OF THE SENTINEL?

Email me at martin.wilsey@gmail.com or info@martinwilsey.com and I will make it happen! 

$15 a copy while they last! I take Paypal, Venmo, CCs, checks, and cash! I'll even trade for cool stuff!

Bailey not included!


--Who knows when I will be able to have another in-person book-signing!!


Quotes of the Week

 “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

― Ronald Reagan

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.  

--Henry David Thoreau

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.

—William Shakespeare

I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. 

—David Bowie

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

—Margaret Atwood

I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. 

—Shannon Halen

No true artist will tolerate for one minute the world as it is.

—Friedrich Nietzsche