Quotes of the Week

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If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.
—Terry Pratchett

A good writer is basically a storyteller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
—Isaac B. Singer

Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.
—Jack London

To finish is sadness to a writer—a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done.
—John Steinbeck

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
—Ernest Hemingway

The job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
—Arthur Miller

The best stories don’t come from good vs. bad but from good vs. good.
—Leo Tolstoy