Quotes of the Week

Any form of human creativity is a process of doing it and getting better at it. You become a writer by writing. There is no other way. 

—Margaret Atwood

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

—Jimmy Stewart

Don’t get it right, just get it written.

—James Thurber

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

—Geoff Dyer

Why say “very beautiful”? “Beautiful” is enough.

—James Joyce

It is the function of art to conceal the difficulties of its execution.

—Susan Sontag

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

—Alfred Hitchcock

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