Thunder Road

Here’s a little wisdom from Skulduggery Pleasant creator Derek Landy…

Book reviewers sometimes talk about how a particular tome successfully captured “a sense of place” by evoking the sights, sounds and smells of a location. For me, ‘a sense of place’ has another meaning.

Taken from a Q & A interview with author Peter Carey in Saturday’s Age newspaper:

Writers lacking ‘endurability’ won’t survive an apprenticeship that inevitably involves “uncertainty, rejection and disappointment” according to the LA Times.