Quotes of the Week

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. —Hemingway

A work of art is never finished, only abandoned.
— Da Vinci

We all have time machines...Those that take us back are memories, and those that carry us forward are dreams.
— HG Wells

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
—Paul Theroux

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.
—Abbas Al-Akkad

Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
—Sylvia Plath

What I write is smarter than I am, because I can re-write it.
—Susan Sontag

I'm always pretending I'm telling someone a story, and I don't want them to get up until it's finished.
—J Patterson