Quotes of the Week

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

—Jimmy Stewart

The profession of book writing makes horse racing look like a solid, stable business.

—John Steinbeck

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.

—Anne Lamott

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

—Alfred Hitchcock

Paper is more patient than man. 

—Anne Frank

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

—Steve Martin

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

—Daphne Du Maurier

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. 

—Neil Gaiman

Write for yourself and yourself alone. Don’t try to please anyone else, and don’t be afraid of anyone. 

—Sallie Tisdale