Quotes of the Week

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
—Stephen King

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
—Henry J. Kaiser

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
—William Goldman

Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
—Henry Miller

I am not responsible for the ideas and opinions that my characters express.
—William Faulkner

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
—Joseph Brodsky

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
—Anne McCaffrey