Quotes of the week

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
—Picasso

Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
—Daphne Du Maurier

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
—W. B. Yeats

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
—E. B. White

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
—J.K. Rowling

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
—Natalie Goldberg

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
—Robert Frost