BD Wilson

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

“Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boats of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year — twenty times.”

“The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.”

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.”

1. The right to not read.
2. The right to skip pages.
3. The right to not finish a book.
4. The right to re-read.
5. The right to read anything.
6. The right to escapisim.
7. The right to read anywhere.
8. The right to browse.
9. The right to read out loud.
10. The right to not defend your tastes.

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”