Quotes of the Week

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

—W. Somerset Maugham

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

—W. Somerset Maugham

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

—Jack London

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate. 

—John Steinbeck

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

—Anaïs Nin

If a writer falls in love with you, you will never die.

—Unknown

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

—Christina Rossetti