Quotes from Mark Rubinstein

Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.

Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.

A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

You don't have to make any decisions right now," Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage." ~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

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

A reader is your partner, a friend, not someone who needs to be impressed. Keep the writing honest, make it come from the heart.

I have stories to tell. I have no theories, no advice, just stories.

The writer's imagination sets the template for the reader's to take over. The reader is a participant in the imaginative process.

The first step in writing is reading.

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In my view, the written word ignites the brain in ways that cannot be achieved by any other medium.

A writer must learn to be comfortable with buried, shadowy currents deep in the mind, those that form dreams & make hidden connections.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome …

A writer's fiefdom is the entire world--everything seen, heard, felt & thought--all augmented by imagination.

A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.

Writing is an act of revelation--to one's self and the world.

Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a book is built.

Make your novel's opening sentence beautiful, one that hooks the reader, and have your last sentence refuse to let the reader go.

I've never met a writer who hasn't been filled with self-doubt

Every novel begins with one sentence. Then comes another. And another.

A writer's work is never done, the meter is never off.