Quotes of the Week

Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory. Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it.

—Jack London

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

—Justice Brandeis

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

—Anne Enright

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

—Richard Ford

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

—Nikolai Gogol

It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.

–C. J. Cherryh

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. 

—Stephen King

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. 

—Stephen King

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

—Bertrand Russell

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

—George Bernard Shaw