Quotes of the Week

I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied ...
—Ernest Hemingway

If you do not breathe through #writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write.
—Anaïs Nin

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

There is only one way to work—Like Hell.
—Bette Davis

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
—Orson Welles

Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny.
—Alain de Botton

You fail only if you stop writing.
—Ray Bradbury

Once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end.
—Anton Chekhov

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

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
—Arthur Miller