Meg Waite Clayton

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5 Funny Irish Writers on How to Write

Iris-Murdoch-Between-Saying-and-Doing_edited-1In case you need some good old Irish inspiration to set aside the green beer for the pen this St. Patrick’s Day weekend, I’ve dug up five funny Irish writers to give us all a bit of advice:
“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.”
– Iris Murdoch
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I don’t have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.”
– Maeve Binchy
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“The first 12 years are the worst.”
– Anne Enright (from a lovely list in the Guardian that I commend to you)
Happy writing! – Meg

P.S. Yes, that is Paris in the picture; I haven’t made it to Ireland yet.
 

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com