Quotes of the Week

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. Inspire them.
—Frank McCourt

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
—Iris Murdoch

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
—Philip Roth

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
—Melinda Haynes

If history was taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
—Rudyard Kipling

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
—Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can come together.
—Marilyn Monroe

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
—Anne Frank

If I see an ending, I can work backward.
—Arthur Miller

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
—Albert Einstein

Let the readers do some of the work themselves.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky

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