Sylvia Plath's Wish: To Live, love, and say it well in good sentences. She never understood how well she'd said it.

People actually believed in fairies, as evidenced in the Cottingly Fairy Photo hoax. Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book is a fun parody.

My friends are all in their 80s and in declining health. The odds of us all being together next Christmas are decreasing every day.

The average American spends more than 6 hours a day reading digitally. We need to develop bilateral brains to process information.

When you attend a book signing, ask writers to inscribe their books with one condensed piece of writing wisdom.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," commits suicide by inhaling chloroform on this on August 17, 1935.

Is the road to hell really paved with adverbs? Data analysis proved that Stephen King was right. The best writing has few adverbs.

What makes writers commit literary fraud? The Education of Little Tree, A Million Little Pieces, Misha, Angel at the Fence are all hoaxes.

Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture discussed the desire for education in Zimbabwe, and how books and reading are essential to society.

Brilliant Maps delivers a zinger to your mind in the form of infographic-maps. Easy to see and quick to decipher in bold, boisterous color.

If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.

The French Resistance was organized by Virginia Hall, a spy - and amputee-- who provided valuable intelligence during WWII.

We never have enough reading time, so you have to choose your books wisely. Here are guaranteed good reads from the Monday Night Book Club.

Writers experience time differently than others. Here's how to make the most of the 5 time zones of productive writers.

Ern Malley's poetry was an elaborate hoax, but because of an editor's backing. Malley's work gained acclaim.

Copywriters are instructed to write at the sixth grade level. Short, simple, and - well - dumber. Even fiction is simpler than before.

Award-winning, note-worthy writers train daily, love language, and have the persistence to keep going even in the face of rejection.

Len Joy's Everyone Dies Famous draws on the cherished tradition of small-town literature where lives overlap, circle, and collide daily.

Writers shouldn't forget the fun factor. When the act of writing doesn’t make them happy, it’s impossible to be successful.

Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt is crammed with hundreds of fascinating facts about reading and writing. Here are five.