Quotes of the Week

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
—W. Somerset Maugham

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
—Larry L. King

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
—Erica Jong

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
—William Faulkner

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
—Truman Capote

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
—Mark Twain

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
—James Michener

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
—James Michener

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
—Pablo Picasso

I write to be the characters that I am not.
—Joss Whedon

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
—Tom Hanks