Quotes of the Week

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
—Frank Capra

You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker. This is a depressing thought for a writer.
—Andy Rooney

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
—Boris Pasternak

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
—Aldous Huxley

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Be yourself and your readers will follow... commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard....
—William Zinsser

In revision, as a rough rule, if the beginning can be cut, cut it.
—UrsulaRSULA K. LE GUIN

Forget what you think about it and tell what you feel about it.
—Stephen Crane