Quotes of the Week

 

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

—Barbara Kingsolver

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

—Charles Lindbergh

Remember, you’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.

—Billy Wilder

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff clears the way for good, or forms a base on which to build something better.

—Jennifer Egan

Writing a book is like having an empty pool in the yard and every day going out and throwing in a cup of water to fill it.

—Bethany Ball

aybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

—John Steinbeck

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

—Rod Serling

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

—Arthur Miller

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

—Katherine Hepburn

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

—Virginia Woolf