Quotes of the Week

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader's.
—Stephen King

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.
—Sylvia Plath

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever please with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
—Margaret Mitchell

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.
—Sidney Sheldon

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
—Henry Ward Beecher

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

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.
—Henry David Thoreau

One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.
—Jack Kerouac

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
—M.F.K. Fisher

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
—Pablo Picasso

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
—Stephen Fry