Nikolaj Højberg

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G. K. Chesterton

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. – Edwin Schlossberg

A fundamental rule of storytelling is that what remains hidden is the most intriguing part – Christopher Fowler

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. – David Sedaris

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. – Henry David Thoreau

When it comes to people, mercy killing is against the law. When it comes to fiction, it is the law. – Stephen King om dårlig prosa.

Kom til sagen (lad vær med at spild din læsers tid med bla bla bla. Ellers finder de en anden bog, eller kaster sig over 5. sæson af Lost).
Skriv en kladde og lad den hvile (som forfatter stirer man sig lynhurtigt blind på egne fejl. Heldigvis bliver de synlige igen efter et par måneder eller to. [...]

I Sverig har der et stykke tid kørt en debat om, hvilke bøger der “bør” udgives og hvilke bøger der “ikke bør” udgives.
En flok mavesure forfattere (mavesure fordi deres bøger ikke sælger) mener at genrebøgerne skal ud og den traditionsrige svenske roman tilbage.
De har ligefrem lavet et manifest for, hvilke bøger det vil være ok at skrive [...]

Begin at the beginning… and go on till you come to the end: then stop. — Lewis Carroll

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C.S Lewis