Quotes of the Week

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

—Sylvia Plath

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

—Stephen King

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

—Orson Welles

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall #write badly if I do not live.

—Françoise Sagan

If your book doesn't keep you up nights writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

—James A. Michener

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

—Mark Twain

Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction.

—Clint Eastwood