Quotes of the Week

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
—Stephen King

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
—Cheryl Strayed

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg

Dialogue has to create a life. It has to be self-sustaining. Conversation is definitely not dialogue.
—Sam Shepard

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the waste-basket.
—Ernest Hemingway

I sweat blood to make my style simple and stripped bare.
—Margaret Mitchell

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
—Orson Welles