Quotes of the Week

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
—John Steinbeck

Great dialogue has transparency. Something is being said while something else is being felt.
—Robert McKee

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.
—Willaim Goldman

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
—Ernest Hemingway

If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down.
—Toni Morrison

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
–C. J. Cherryh

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

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
—Justice Brandeis

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Quotes of the Week

I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that.
—David Bowie

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
—Jimmy Stewart

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.
—Henry David Thoreau

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is … the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
—Mark Twain

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
—Marilyn Monroe

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson

You fail only if you stop writing.
—Ray Bradbury

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariable answer, "One word at a time."
—Stephen King

A one-page breakthrough can start an avalanche.
—Nancy K. Haddock

Me on Mondays...

--mr. joshua @pants