WRITING

Not all stationery needs to be practical.

With flowing prose and a courageous pen, Virginia Woolf wasn't afraid to dissect any topic, whether it was the idiocy of warfare or the joys of sex.

Shortly before her death, the author sent her 8-year-old niece a New Year's greeting—written entirely backwards.

Nueva Qwerty makes language a little simpler.

"Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality," 'The Handmaid's Tale' author Margaret Atwood said. "I'm a realist."

The mid-century masterpiece has been called his most autobiographical play.

Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel was met with a poor critical reception. Decades later, critics finally understood what Hurston had accomplished.

“Write drunk, edit sober” may sound like a sage piece of advice, but it didn't come from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In addition to being one of the world's most successful and prolific writers, Stephen King is also the toast of Hollywood with a seemingly never-ending stream of adaptations being made of his work.

For eight years, King's pseudonym went undiscovered. Then a bookstore clerk took a walk to the Library of Congress.

Dickens wrote, “I have the perfect conviction that I could magnetize a Frying-Pan.”

Researchers working on a book about the poet stumbled on two of her unpublished poems hidden in a notebook.