60 Quotes by Mark Rubinstein

Reading any novel, good or mediocre, is a workshop for a writer.

A writer’s refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

A writer has two choices: either write or curl up and die.

A writer is never unemployed.

A writer should not wait for inspiration; it won’t come. Inspiration is fueled by the act of writing, by the sweat of the effort, by the work.

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There’s music in the words.

Good or evil, it doesn’t really matter, so long as your novel’s character is interesting.

If you write what you love everything else will follow.