Quotes of the week

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
—Dr. Seuss

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
—Lisa See

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—Steinbeck

Ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper...
—Mark Twain

I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
—Hemingway

Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
—George Orwell

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
—Albert Einstein

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg

You must write for yourself above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
—Gustave Flaubert